Chapter 5
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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday February 20th, 2005
A small spec parted the dark clouds in the southern sky, visible between the tall dark towers of the fortress.
"That thing in the sky! What is it?!"
"Shall we attack?"
"Wait! That ship... could it be the... Emperor...?"
"Not sure I recognize that one..."
"It can be no other! Make way! It's landing!"
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Draven sneered out the window as he navigated the black airship closer and closer to the large platform extending out of the black fortress. As he expected, the airship design was instantly recognized by the fortress occupants as the Emperor's. Otherwise it would have been difficult to even approach the heavily armed former capital. Scaly dark wyverns remained clutched to the tower sides, eying the ship as it hummed past.
The ship slowly landed with a clang, the magic fueled engines powering down. The door at ground level opened slowly, a bit of mist emanating from within. Several dozen Dark Empire soldiers approached meekly, not sure what to expect...
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday February 21st, 2005
Duilin stands in the firely volcanic dark place. Fissures explodeing with lava surond him all over the place. He looks around, and walks quitely around...
Suddenly a figure attacks him, it creates a blade of fire and swings it at Duilin. Duilin grabs the flame as it flys at him, atempting to block it, relying on his demon powers, but it burns his hand. The figure then charges at him, grabbing him, pounding at him, he trys to fight back, but nothing happens. Duilin gets enraged, at the figure, and a dark aura glows around Duilin. He then transforms, into what looks like a full demon and then rips the figure apart...
Duilin awakes, bolting up. With a slight yell of fear.
A dream....nothing more Duilin thinks. He then sits up on the couch, and rubs his forehead and sighs.
"Damn, nightmares..."
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A large man was with the group of warriors. He was much bigger then all of them, so he stood out.
"It looks like the Emporer's ship...a little..." He says
"Could it be the Emporer, Maxwell?" A soilder asked
"I don't know. But I'm prepareing for the worst.." He loads a few bolts in his gun, but keeps it lowered. "My brother better be on that ship..." Maxwell says quitely...
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This place is so...clean...and peacefull...could this be heaven? Could the gate I found in hell would have lead me to heaven?
A small, red, winged, humaniod, creature stands on top of a stone building.
No, this must be the place, were the 6 weapons are. Armic must be looking for them. He has joined with Quor. For some reason I don't like that. This is just to much, the deamons were in this world, and they destroyed many things. I seem to have lost my demon partner aswell. Imps need a demon partner, so I need to find one. Hmm...I sence demons...one...no...two. Two demons!
The Imp then glids down to the ground and then heads towards, Duilin's house.
"My name is Rink! I rime with pink! I'm so small, I fit in a sink!"
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday February 21st, 2005
Zeros' groggily wakes up and puts a hand to his forehead. He shakes his head, his silver hair spillng over his shoulders as he plants his feet on the floor and pushes off. He folds all six of his wings behind him and looks out the window at the small red imp. He slanters over to the door and peers down at the small red creature as he opens the door.
"What in the nine hells is an imp doing here? Shouldn't you be back in Qor's realm?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday February 21st, 2005
Haraldur awoke, his aura forming little snowflake patterns in the air. He floated down to the ground. He came to the door, saw the imp, and glared at it.
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday February 21st, 2005
A shadow appeared in the doorway, turning into Draven as he stepped out of the ship. His walk was calm and authoritive, his cape flowing behind him, striding as if he never had been missing for a whole month...
"L-Lord Draven?!"
"Who is in charge here?"
"C-Commander Maxwell, s-sir..."
The soldier pointed to the mammoth of a man in black armor, standing at the opposite side of the platform. Draven pushed the soldier out of the way as he continued walking.
"Commander Maxwell, I commend you. You've kept the capital in fair order during my absence. Many other cities have fallen during our absence. You are to be rewarded."
He continued walking, the entourage of confused soldiers meekly following their general.
"Alas, it seems our glorious Emperor and the rest of the high generals will not be joining us... I will be taking full command from here on."
Draven sneered. The black gates opened to the interior of the Dark Palace.
"The one behind me, Armic, is my guest. Do see that he receives the same respect as is given to me."
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday February 22nd, 2005
Maxwell, glances at Draven in slight shock. "Very well lord Draven. I'll make sure the annoncments spreads around." He straps his weapon on his belt. "I take it the Emporer is dead now. I didn't think Retan could have been defeated. But one question..." He then steps infront of Draven "Were is my brother? Were is Darion? I didn't hear about him, when the reports came..."
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"An Imp?" Duilin says, getting up. He then looks toward it. Rink then runs into the building, slides in past Zeros' and then glares at Duilin.
"My name is Rink!" Says the Imp. He then walks around..."Nice place you got here..Who's is it?"
"Mine." Duilin replies "How the hell did you get here, the portal is closed!"
"Well...Imps are parnered with Demons, and well. My demon was killed, by a golden mace barring half demon."
He then turns at Duilin "You! It was you! But worry you not! For, I have a clue, that staying here is the spot!"
"What a horrible rime." Duilin groans
"My name is Rink! I rime with Pink! I'm so small, I fit in a sink!" Rink the dives on to one of the chairs. "I knock down stuff..." He then jumps into the air, and blasts a tiny flame at the chair, knocking it down giveing it a slight burn "...in a firey puff!" He then jumps at Duilin "And I'd like you to know, You stink!"
"Geez, okay, Your a good rimer. Now get outa here!" Duilin says, smacking Rink away.
"No, but you see...the problom is...I need a new demon partner. And since you have slain my old one, it has to be you! So...Weither you like it or not, you are to be my new demon!"
"But I'm only a half breed! Can't you just take Zeros' he most demon then I am!"
"So you think...You can't fool, old Rink! Your more demon then you belive, Your dreams do not desive!" Rink grins at Duilin, and gives him a look...
Duilin the glares at Rink."What do you...nevermind...Okay, then, your can stay with me!" Duilin laughs. "I still don't get it, why is it so important for you to have a demon? If it won't make you go back home..."
"Next time the portal opens I can go back home...But I don't want to much, perhaps, we should find the weapons?"
Duilin rubs his chin, "Hmmm..."
Posted by: CyberWolf on Tuesday February 22nd, 2005
Armic got out of his crouched position against the vessels wall and trodded out of the ship behind Draven.
Bending his wings as to not bang them against the doorway, he steps out and observes his surroundings. He examines the soldiers, and finds one out of the crowd that seemed to fear him. As he walked down the aisle, the made sure to feign an attack against the fearful soldier, enjoying the sudden jump his target made.
Laughing to himself, he stands slightly behind Draven, to his right side and folds his arms, his wings halfway expanded.
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Nevina wakes up, feeling groggy, but feels renewed strength within herself.
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday February 22nd, 2005
Zeros' rubs his temples and glares at Rink.
"Don't worry Duilin. Most demons have a partner imp. Its a bonding ceremony. The only reason you haven't obtained an imp yet is because you've lives most your life as a human. The reason I don't have an imp is because of the blood of a god/goddess I have. Most imps wouldn't survive with me because of that. I'd have a better chance with an angel instead of an imp, but I choose not to. Kami-sama and Hild-sama are just plain annoying..." He explained while looked between Duilin and Rink.
"But since I'm not directly involved with either ruler - Kami-sama being heaven or Asgard and Hild-sama being Nifelim - I have no need for a partner. Probably the only reason I've not been attacked yet is because I'm one of the strongest being on this planet, Asgard and Nifliem included."
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday February 22nd, 2005
Draven continued walking, the group now moving inside the dark-walled, red carpeted tower.
"As for exactly what happened to the Emperor, I'm not sure. Alas, I do know the fate of your brother, however...
"There was a traitor among us at Romme. Though I didn't see him do it, I'm sure it was him. A miserable soldier named Duilin. Darion informed me of his treachery and went off to punish the traitor, but the next time I saw him he was dead in front of Romme Castle...
"If you wish to seek revenge you are in luck, for I saw Duilin just yesterday near Laus. He seems to be part demon and quite resilient, though I doubt he'll give you any trouble..."
The group came to a grand spiral staircase and began to descend (for the ship landed on an elevated platform, about halfway up the tower.)
"But first things first... Maxwell, the underground shrine this fortress was built on decades ago... has it been opened in the past month?"
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday February 22nd, 2005
"No, sir. It hasn't been open since the Emperor left." Replies Maxwell.
"Duilin...I'll remember that name...." He says softly "
I supose my brother's friends suffered the same fait...
"He desided not to open the shine, untill one of the High Generals, or the Emperor returned, if they didn't come in about a year, then we would stop waiting...I guess, your lucky you came...my lord."
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"Well, if you put it that way, I guess, I'll just have to live with it." Duilin sighs
Rink grins and then glides onto Duilin's shoulder. "Ahhh...I almost allready like you more then my old master, he didn't talk, and he smelted like cheese, so he wasn't so fun." Rink laughed
"I see..." Duilin then swipes Rink off his shoulder, Rink falls down to the floor. Duilin turns around. And notices Nevina awake. "Nevina, your awake!" He then walks over to the chair near the beds, and then sits next to it. "You allright? Need anything to drink?"
Rink then gives the I have an Idea look "My name is Rink! Shall I go to the sink? Should I fetch a cup and get her a drink?"
"Hey, that accually wasn't bad. Nevina, this is Rink. An Imp...we are stuck with him for now. He likes to make rimes, apparently..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday February 23rd, 2005
"If he get out of line, I'd be happy to skewer him on the end of my Masamune. I don't like demons from other plains of existence, other then Midgard - that's this planet." He grumbled under his breath.
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday February 23rd, 2005
Haraldur looked on with mild amusement, before looking serious again.
"We have work to do," he said. "We should leave north soon, before Draven has the cahnce to destroy the records we need to find."
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday February 23rd, 2005
Zeros' straightened up and smiled.
"Yeah yeah. Lets go." He said as he walked towards the door.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday February 23rd, 2005
Duilin, picks up the gold mace, and clips it back onto his belt. He also takes out his old combat knife,from a drawer, and slips it onto his belt aswell.
"Let's go Tinkerbell." Duilin says, to Rink.
"Hey, Duilin. Shouldn't you introduce me to every one?" Rink asks
"The guy in the robes is Haraldur, the sixed winged demon angel is Zeros', the woman sitting up on the bed is Nevina, and the man sleeping is Kami-Ryu." Duilin says. He then looks to Zeros' "What about Kami-Ryu?" He asks "Should we wake him?"
Posted by: CyberWolf on Wednesday February 23rd, 2005
"*cough* No, I'm fine.." said Nevina, coughing softly. "Just a little sickish... but-" As she cut herself off, she raised her right forearm into the air and a wave of virtigo swept over her, and she jumped from the bed. "-nothing I can't handle." She said with a smile, finishing her sentence.
Posted by: Trent on Wednesday February 23rd, 2005
Tsu walked out of the cabin, seeing Zion and Xenai just standing there with their hands in their pockets.
"I can still feel him," said Xenai.
"I'll finish him off," said Zion.
"How long have you guys been up?" asked Tsu.
"Roughly 2 hours," replied Zion.
"Jeez." Tsu walked up next to Zion. "So when are we leaving?"
"2 minutes."
"Okay."
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ZW -- 2
EW -- 2
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday February 23rd, 2005
Draven continued leading the group down the stairwell.
"Hmm, excellent. I have a feeling..."
He stopped and turned.
"Armic, Maxwell, come with me. The rest of you idiots get back to whatever you're supposed to be doing... now!"
The soldiers scattered in a panic, some disappearing into doorways and others up and down the stairs, leaving the three alone. Draven continued on, now turning into a dark hallway. He was speaking more towards Armic, as Maxwell wouldn't have known what was going on:
"Its rather interesting that our little group of trouble makers is recovering the weapons as quickly as they are... they have at least three, possibly four... I'm wondering if the weapons somehow returned to a set location on Retan's disappearance.
"The shrine beneath this fortress has always been empty to my knowledge, but I believe the first weapon was found near here long ago. It is always possible that it could have been removed beforehand... Also, Retan always spoke of 'performing the ceremony in the shrine' after obtaining the weapons... It's worth a look."
He continued on, leading deeper and deeper into the fortress...
Posted by: Trent on Thursday February 24th, 2005
Zion flared his aura in an act of determination. "Let's GO!!!"
Xenai flared his aura as if to compete with his old friend. They both showed off their power (Nothing like DBZ or Kuon, just a bunch of colored energy and wind), competing with each other, finding themselves to be equal to one another.
"Tsu, come on!" Zion took off, with Xenai following. Tsu seemed to get along pretty well, actually. He followed Zion and Xenai without too much of a problem, but he seemed to have gotten less sleep than he should have...
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EW - 1
ZW - 1
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday February 24th, 2005
Haraldur exited the house. He floated upwards a little, and in the corner of his eyes he could see the flight obstacles, but most of them as yet not operational. They could still get there in time. Such folly to sleep! Damn! I should have refused them sleep.
"The barriers are dormant, let us go."
He sped northwards, the staff glowing as it melded with him.
Posted by: CyberWolf on Thursday February 24th, 2005
Armic said, "Weapons? What is all this talk of weapons? That God-spawned freak we had a run in earlier was yammering on about them too... What are they, any why do we want them?" Armic asked.
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday February 24th, 2005
Zeros' shakes his head.
"No. He's used too much ki and chakra. He needs to rest more before he's even fit for fighting. His injuries aren't serious - except for the one to his left side - but with his ki and chakra so low, he'll be more of a burden then a help. I can't recharge his reserves because of my energies dark natures." He then sweeps out the door and glanced over his shoulder.
"Well lets get going!"
Posted by: Trent on Thursday February 24th, 2005
Zion's team honed in on Zeros' ki signature, and flew toward it, as fast as possible.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday February 24th, 2005
"Very well." Duilin replied "Let's go."
Rink, then darts outside, and then leaps right over Zeros' and then falls down back onto the ground on the street. Duilin walks outside, and stops beside Zeros' and then looks at Rink.
"Uhh...Apparently, I need aid getting into the air. My powers seem to have dimed up slightly." Rink sighed
"Allright, then." Duilin said, he motioned to his shoulder "Let's get going."
Rink then hoped onto Duilin's shoulder. And the pointed up into the air. "Up, up and away, my noble steed! On forth to insanity!"
"It's gonna take along time to get use to this..." Duilin groaned under his breath, he then jumped into the air and started flapping his wings, to hover up into the air, and then rose higher and then soared off...
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday February 24th, 2005
Draven opened another set of doors, leading to a cold, damp, dungeon-like basement.
"Heh... we don't..."
The interior was pitch black. Draven extended his right palm; a fireball appearing within it illuminated the scene.
"However, Ragnar and Zeros' clearly do... If we obtain but one, they will have no choice but to eventually go through us... and that's when... heh... get the picture?"
He started down the final set of stairs.
"I can think of a dozen tactical advantages... That is, of course, if there actually is one of the weapons down here..."
Finally reaching the bottom, the flame from his hand rose into the stagnant air, igniting two torches on either side of a great stone door. It clearly hasn't been opened in years.
"Excellent..."
Draven forced his hand into the crack beetween the door and the wall. At first the stone didn't move, but with some effort, he eventually pushed it aside, the rock cracking under the force of his palms...
"Shall we?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday February 25th, 2005
Zeros' crouched low and jumped straight up. He spead all six wings wide to their wingspan and flapped and sped off towards Haraldur and Duilin direction.
Posted by: Trent on Friday February 25th, 2005
And they were there.
"Zeros'!" called out Zion, waving at him as they caught up. "Are you guys by any chance heading towards where Draven is?"
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday February 25th, 2005
Haraldur is half the way to the Crimson Empire capital. He ignores everyone, and accelerates and disappears off the horizon, filled with rage.
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Ellenna woke up in the temple, smiled at Kahn, and went to sleep again because of her tiredness.
//She is currently inactive until woken up Kahn: wake her up).//
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The Great Prophet appeared in front of Duilin and Zeros' as an image only. He said: "You have the weight of history weighing on your shoulders. The one you ally with has many possible futures, some destructive, some not. He is The Bitter One, the one in which anger can so easily fire up to destruction. For the safety of the world, it is crucial that The Light, his predestined lover is found, and that they meet, else there will be much suffering."
The image disappeared.
//The great prophet is inactive.//
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday February 25th, 2005
"Zeros' what was that?! I think he was talking about Haraldur...maybe we should go back..." Duilin says to Zeros'. He sees Zion and his group.
"Hey, it's...those people..."
Rink just scratches his head in confusion.
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday February 25th, 2005
"Oi, Zion." Zeros' waved towards Zion. "And Yes were heading towards Draven's empire." Zeros' scratched his head as he recalled the image,
"According to that prophet, Haraldur is called 'The Bitter One', probably from his fusion with Rangnar. Apparently, he has the power to destroy the world. I also do...but that besides the point. It seems we have to find his predestined 'lover' who is named 'The Light.'" Zeros; stroked his chin in a contemplateve matter.
"It seems weve bitten off more then we can chew. The problem is, if Haraldur goes crazy and we don't find his lover, we have to slay him." Zeros' leveled his gaze at his four companions.
Posted by: CyberWolf on Friday February 25th, 2005
"Hmmph... Why don't we just cause an apocalypse if we want to be emancipated from them. Kill billions of birds with one stone..." Armic said with a sick grin as he followed Draven through the door.
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Nevina thought about trying to heal the Ninja on the bed, but decided it might be best that she didn't. She walked out of the door, concentrated all her energy into the air beneath her feet, and she began to ascend into the air. As she got a good 50 feet in the air, she flipped over so that she was in a 'flying' postion, and she forced herself forward, gradually accelerating, as she followed Duilin.
Posted by: Kahn on Friday February 25th, 2005
"Well I guess she's alive"
Kahn walked over to Ellenna and started to shake her.
"No time for sleep, I believe we still have a job to do."
Posted by: Trent on Friday February 25th, 2005
"I hope you don't mind if we tag along," said Zion.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday February 25th, 2005
Draven continued striding through the dark ruins.
"Now, how would we go about causing a catastrophic global scale apocalypse, hmm Armic? It's not worth putting in more effort than we'll get out."
After descending a bit more, they came to a large room that looked strangely different from the rest of the subterranean shrine. This room looked newer, as there was considerably less dust and dirt built up on the floor and wall. In the center was an altar, something dimly visible sparkling on top of it. On each side was a statue of a menacing dragon.
"Well, I'll be..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday February 25th, 2005
Zeros' shook his head as wind waffed through his hair, bangs abskewring his emerald green eyes.
"The more help the better, I'd say." Zeros' said as he gazed towards the horizion. "Both the weapons you two have'll help, as well as your magic and skills." He said as he glanced at each of the three.
Zeros' mystic senses sought out Haraldur's sudden impowering rage. He gritted his teeth as he concentrated.
Haraldur! Calm yourself! Going into a pure blood rage won't help our situation. He sent the risky thought out to Haraldur. He glanced at his companions and closed his eyes, focusing the air and his own dark ki into his wings. They fluctuated in color wildly as he gritted his teeth as his back suddenly started to bubble below the last pair of black angel wings.
As sudden as the sensation appeared, it disappeared as two more dark angel wings appeared below the six already their, breaking another barrier upon his inclosed power.
[An explanation abou Zeros' power. Each black wing harbors to contain some of his dark aura. Everytime he releases another wing or pair of wings, his power slowly returns to him. Similar barrier are placed upon all gods, goddess and demons, except in the form of limiter earrings, which limit the beings powers. Since Zeros' doesn't have dedication towards Kami-sama or Hild-sama, he uses his wings to contain his power, fearing if he released too much, he wouldn't be able to contain it.]
"We need to hurry. I fear for Haraldur as I can sense his increasing rage. He may do something he would regret." Zeros' voice was only a whisper in the wind as he broke the sound barrier several times, disappearing totally from sight, speeding off as fast as he could towards Haraldurs postion.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday February 26th, 2005
I feel someone is close to part of me: one which is neither you nor Duilin nor Kami-Ryu, some other. This must not happen. This must be stopped... I will stop it. Help me if you wish.
The sword and the spear and the mace all glow a fiery red, tugging a little northwards, in an urgent way.
Haraldur was near to the capital, and could see a landing area with a black ship, and it was swarming with soldiers.
He roared down on them, falling down as a fireball, and exploding on the landing area, cracking the stones.
Around him were many dead soldiers. He stood up. And screamed a scream of rage that surely could be heard from Zeros' position.
He grabbed a soldier by his neck and shouted: "Where is Draven!?" The soldier pointed. Haraldur broke his neck, then went in the direction of the point.
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Ellenna got up. "Yes, we must go." She thanked the temple staff and went outside, waiting for Kahn.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday February 26th, 2005
"Whoa, my mace is going crazy!" Duilin says "We better go guys, follow me, wile I follow the weapon..."
Duilin then ilumniates a firey blast, and then soars off, a great speed. Rink grabes on really tight to Duilin's shoulders...
"Yaaaaaaaa! To fast! Slow down! Slow down!" Rink cries
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"Amazeing." Maxwell says "So, with this weapon, we will lure the enemy here, and destroy them? Sounds good." He then stares at the satues "Well, my lord. You should probally get the weapon" He subjests
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday February 26th, 2005
Draven stepped up to the altar, upon which sat a long intricate battle axe with a green gem in the handle. Suddenly the whole thing began to glow a fiery red...
"Hmm..."
Draven picked up the weapon. Immediately swirls of crimson and darkness began to conflict with Draven's own aura of flame, which automatically appeared to protect him.
"This weapon... has two auras..."
He ran his hand over the handle, casting an invisible barrier over the weapon that would temporarily seal its magical contact with the surrounding world. The auras vanished. Draven dispersed his aura as well.
An explosion, screams from above...
"Well, now. Looks like our guest has arrived early..."
Draven rested the long axe on his shoulder as he began to float a few inches above the ground.
"And here is how our miserable band of ruffians will meet their end. Ragnar is a rash fellow. Notice how his friends showed up a few minutes after he tried to attack our ship yesterday? He's likely acting against their concil. And they'll likely show up to save his sorry self again.
"Maxwell, you will prepare the forces for a full assault. Not on Ragnar, but on his band of merry men that will appear in a few minutes. Use everything we have-- the soldiers, the cannons, the wyverns...
"Armic, your role will not come into play until after our band of losers has arrived. Once they are deeply engaged fighting our forces, you will summon your demons behind them. We'll trap our enemies in a pincer attack, wiping them out easily. I assure you, Armic, it will be at least as fun as Armageddon... heh...
"As for Ragnar, I will deal with him personally."
An explosion of flame violently burst forth from the man. Draven took off like a rocket, flying though the corridors and stairwells of the shrine and entering the massive dark fortress from below. He shot a telepathic message to Haraldur, outside.
"My, my, what a temper. Looking for something?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday February 26th, 2005
Zeros' new speed allows him to catch up towards Haraldur in seconds. He stops in mid-air and drops to the ground besides Haraldur. He narrows his eyes as he looks towards the castle. He then stands straight and glares at the soldiers. Many of the ones standing directly in front of him shrink back and shiver, but they don't back off.
"So be it." In a blur of motion, Zeros' unsheaths his sword and fells five soldiers with one sweep. Blood gushes and flows from the gashes as their headless bodies roll along the ground.
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In the back of the ground, a captain looks at Zeros' and shivers.
"GO! CHARGE! OVER POWER HIM!" He yells. The soldiers look towards the captain and then back towards Zeros' and let out a warcry, charging towards him.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday February 26th, 2005
A temper, Oh, yes... Looking for something? Only what is me.
Each weapon tugged violently towards him (far away, somewhere, on an alter, the last weapon flew and hit the wall before being forced back to it's resting place by its guardian).
There was a charging captain below him, ahead of his soldiers. Haraldur picked him up in front of their eyes, and looked at them with a menacing smile while the captain screamed as his body was turned to plasma and then thrown at Draven. The vast majority of the soldiers fled.
With his other hand, he conjured up a roaring ball which he threw at the fortress, causing rocks to fly out, and larger ones to fall from above Draven.
To Zeros' he sent a message: Curious... it seems that I do not have to be in possession of all the weapons to destroy them: all we would need is the last remaining weapon, then you give me all five. We go to Draven, and then... and then it will be done.
Haraldur grinned at Draven mockingly.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday February 26th, 2005
Maxwell then runs off as fast as he could back to the surface. He then yelled at an officer "Sound the alarm! Now!"
The officer noded, and ran up into a near by tower, he then started to ring several large bells the ringing ehcoed everywere. Suddenly more and more soilders started to run out. Armored Wyverns and there riders, flue up into the air, and began circled, and trying to hunt down the enemies. Armored hourse pulled carts, with cannons wealed there way around. Soilders armed with swords, axes, spears, hammers, maces and cross bows began to storm the area...
"Now, it's time, to march forth and kick some ass!" Maxwell chanted, he fully loaded up his Bolt riffle. And began to head toward the docking area...
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"Hold on tight Rink! I'm going to try and go faster!" Duilin calls to the Imp
"Oh, no!" Rink cries, he then crawls into Duilin's arms and Duilin holds him tight.
Duilin then blasts like a rocket ship, breaking the sound barrier, for the first time in his life. He was amazed at how fast he was going. Yellowish fire was surrounding him, he looked like a fireball blasting threw the air.
He then spots the place were the weapon is takeing him. The Dark Empire base. He then, smashes down on the ground near by Zeros' and Haraldur. Scorching the ground, he lands down. Rink has his eyes bloted wide open, shivering like a 55lb man wearing boxer shorts in Antarctica.
"Never do that again Duilin. Please..."
Posted by: Trent on Saturday February 26th, 2005
Xenai looked at Tsu. "Looks like you're hung, kid. You're not achieving zanzoken any time soon. Take care, buddy."
Tsu was slightly relieved, yet sad that he could not help his friends. "I'll hold the fort here."
Zion concentrated in the direction of the Dark Palace. "No, you're coming with us. You're needed for Seijin's special attack. Stand back."
Tsu floated a good distance backwards, away from Zion and Xenai. Zion and Xenai assumed firm stances, focusing on their ki, and letting out thunderous yells. Their auras clashed with one another, and then Zion and Xenai started to grow... wings. Angel wings, they were translucent, and seemed not to be attached to their backs. Zion's were white, while Xenai's were black. They'd taken the seal off their power.
Zion and Xenai looked at Tsu with narrowed eyes, pointing their hands at them. "Pick a color," said Zion.
Tsu's eyes were widened. "Uh... Blue."
Wham! A massive amount of energy slammed into him, and just like that, there were the same type of wings on his back, they were blue. "You don't have much power," said Xenai, "But those babies will make sure you fight with all of it. They also enable ki-challenged people like you to use Satsu-ki (Explosive ki, or literally, 'Death ki')." Zion and Xenai grabbed onto Tsu, and took off toward the Dark Palace at a blinding speed.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday February 26th, 2005
Maxwell then spots Haraldur, Zeros' and Duilin.
"Hmm, those must be them." Maxwell says. "I'll be sure that they die!"
He then dashes toward a canon, near by. He grabs a cannon ball and then loads it in. He grabs a torch on the wall and then lights the cannonm it then fires, just missing the group.
"Hmm...Haraldur. I'm not sure what one that is. But let me think on this, two of them look like demons, and Haraldur I do not belive is a deamon. So I supose that's him! And one of those two must be, this, Duilin character..."
A group of Wyvern flew over to the area
//I was wondering, can Wyvern's shoot fire?//
"Attack the demons!" Maxwell yelled.
The wyverns riders, then shot arrows down at Duilin and Zeros'.
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Duilin dived out of the way. But a few got him in the back.
"Owch! What ever happened to saying hello?" Duilin groaned
Rink then flue out of Duilin hands and then started blasting fireballs at the arrows flieing at him.
"Zeros' there attacking us. Should we run for it?" Duilin asks
"You know, I could go for that, right about now!" Rink cries
"Accually ditch that, idea! Looks like there not letting us out!" A group, of 15 soilders ran the group, 5 ran at Duilin. Duilin thrusted his hand out and blasted a fire ball at one of them, killing him instantly. Rink dived at one soilder and started clawing at his face, the soilder droped his weapon and started running off. The remaining three ran at Duilin...
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday February 26th, 2005
Zeros' hands blurred as the three heading towards Duilin fell limp to the ground, decapitated.
Yes...after we have all the weapons though, can you summon Ryu here after we secure all of them? He has he spear still, hidden away in his cloak, but I can reach it.
Zeros' glared defiently at the ground ahead of him.
"No Duilin. We stay and fight." Zeros' held up his left hand, the one not currently occupied. His hand started crackling with brown and green energy. He grinned at the soldiers.
"DUG HAUT!" Zeros' raised his arm more as the energy crackling across his palm increased. He slammed it down faster then ever, the breaking of several sound barriers popping through the air as a 30 foot crater appeared below where Zeros' palm slammed, knocking all the soldeirs around him off their feet.
Before anyone had time to react, tendrils of grown and green slivered across the ground, crackling with intense magic energy. Soldiers cried out in pain as spikes made of earth impaled those all around Zeros', Duilin and Rink, killing them instantly as blood poured down their chests - where the spikes punctured their hearts - and heads as their brains exploded from sheer pressure, littering the ground crimson.
"Duilin! Attack the castle directly!" Zeros' used his sword to deflect stray arrows that reached his position while screams of anguish pierce the battle ground. "I'll deal with this!" Zeros' charged his ki. Even ones without training in anythng could feel the death, grief, pain, anguish, rage and anger surrounding his wings. He jumped into the air and flaped all eight of his wings as they sent a super sonic blast through the feild.
Soldiers were knocked off their feet and arrows were crushed by the pressure as Zeros' rose into the air and spotted Haraldur and Draven in the distance. He headed into that direction, which also placed him near the castle, indirectly.
Zeros' stopped near Draven and Haraldur and grinned at hm, mockingly.
"We meet again." He replied cooly.
Haraldur do you sense Qor? He sent the thought to Haraldur as he extended his sense. He sensed Armic towards the castle. He glanced in that direction and saw Maxwell as he ordered around the units.
Posted by: Kahn on Sunday February 27th, 2005
Kahn left the temple right behind Ellenna.
"So where are we off to now?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday February 27th, 2005
Haraldur told Zeros': If we do not force the axe from Draven's possession into ours, then we shall return to Laus to pick up Ryu. We will then find the last weapon, hopefully with information from here about its whereabouts. Then we shall enter another confrontation with Draven, and because he will be close, it will be posible to destroy the weapons. If we do get the axe from Draven, then we find the last one anyway, and destroy them at that weapon's shrine.
Yes, I sense Qor, the stunted runt that he is. He may cause us problems, so we should get this over with as soon as possible.
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Ellenna said "We go north. I feel something drawing me there."
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday February 27th, 2005
"You got it cheif!" Duilin replies to Zeros' as he blasts off. "Okay, Rink. Could your old partner do this?" He raises his hands in the air. His eyes start glowing yellow. He begins to aborb heat heat from all around him, and creates a fire ball about 7 feet in diameter. He tosses the fireball at one of the castle walls. A huge explotion had part of the castle parially knocked down.
"Yeah, I think I saw him do that once or twice. Uh oh. More Dark Soilders!" Rink says
The soilders run there way threw, avioding the spikey things that Zeros' made.
As one ran at him, he jumped into the air about 10 feet with aid of his wings. The soilder slid on the ground, and was about close to a meter away from Duilin's former postion, so that as Duilin lands the soilder is behind, him. Instantly another run, with his sword pointed at him, so Duilin jumps again and the Dark Warrior kills the other one instead. Duilin then picks up the soilder and then casts fire wile holding him, turning him into a firey heap. He then tosses the soilder at a few others, and then grabs one of spikes and breaks and then tosses it at another soilder, going right threw his torso.
"The others better hurry up. I can't fight these guys all by myself. Rink, I don't supose you can do anything?" Duilin says as he fights off more soilders with his mace. An armored hourse pulled carts, with a cannon started there way to Duilin's location (I guess we can call them Cart Tanks).
"Yeah, I think so.." Rink relpies. He then flies over to the Cart Tank. And then jumps on the hourses back, and then quiclky burns off the straps and the chains, that held the hourse, and smacks the hourses back, Getting it to run off. He quickly flies off the hourse and then crawls into the Tank.
"What the hell is that thing?" The Tank driver cries. Rink then blasts a fire ball at the mans eyes, and then jumps at his face. He claws at his head, killing the creap. The gunner then freaks out and jumps out of the Cart and runs. Rink, then reals the cannon at the Wyvern's and shoots one down.
The hourse then runs at Duilin's position. "Whoa there!" Duilin says. The hourse stops and looks at Duilin. Duilin rubs his chin...
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"Rats! Two of them are close!" Maxwell groans, he points to a group of 10 soilders "You! Get the new weapons and then go after the eight winged freak! Leave the other one."
"Sir, yes, sir!" The soilders reply. Then then open this large door. The soilders put on extremly thick steal armor. They arm themselfs with Caliberate Shotguns, with plently off ammo. Then the 10 shock troops ran as fast as they could to Zeros'.
They arived quickly to his position, seeing as they were not to far away. They then began fireing at Zeros'. Shotgun shells rapidly flue threw the air, flying at Zeros'.
//10 Shock Troops. There armor is really powerfull. So they won't die easly at all.//
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday February 27th, 2005
(This is great stuff. Heh...)
Draven gave Zeros' a raised eyebrow.
"Is it just me, or do you get more freaky every time we meet? I mean 8 of them now... you're going to have trouble entering doors before long."
Draven rose higher and higher. He was positioned high above the dark fortress. One of the tallest towers was at his back. He strapped the large axe to his belt on the left side, speaking to Haraldur:
"Look what I found in my basement! I know better than to try to use this on you. Still, you'll find any attempts to call it to you quite futile, as it will remain deaf to your calls as long as it is in my possession."
He clenched his fists and brought both arms to his side. To anyone near Draven, the intense clamor of battle below seemed to muffle out completely... The ambience seemed to darken, becoming more of a pale red... the only audible noise was a soft wind that blew gently upwards over Draven's body, making his long hair slowly wave upwards and his cape extend outward. His face was calmly focused and his reverbed voice pierced to the soul:
"Shall we begin?"
The man immediately exploded in flame with an intensity never seen before. A surging sphere of flame blasted outwards in all directions. The upper reaches of the tower behind him literally disintegrated, the very bricks crumbling into dust... When it was over, a dark figure in the center of a massive crimson fireball painted the sky an eerie red...
Draven's features were not easily distingushed wrapped in the intense crimson aura, but his eyes shone though, two white triangular slits much more intense than the flame itself...
Posted by: Trent on Sunday February 27th, 2005
Zion, Xenai, and Tsu arrived at the Dark Palace. Tsu was released, and Zion and Xenai connected their wrists, standing back to back. Tsu floated behind them as they pointed their palms at a clump of soldiers, a safe distance away from Rink and Duilin.
"Satsujin-ha!!!"
Blue waves of energy erupted from their hands, and slammed into the clump of soldiers, obliterating them.
Tsu, with a newfound courage, swooped down near Rink and Duilin, landed, and started to hack away at the soldiers.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday February 27th, 2005
"Ha ha." Zeros' deadpanned. Zeros' used his speed to dodge above the shotgun bullets. He pointed one finger towards them, his eyes never leaving Draven, and charged it with ki. Ki started to crackle around his finger as he sent a message towards Haraldur:
Do you want help with Draven? If so, I'll stay. If not, I'll go after Qor. He released ten ki bolts in the direction of the Shock tropers. The shok tropers were not killed, but the ki bolts knocked them back several feet, also making dents in their armor as they hit a wall and slumped down, dizzy.
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday February 27th, 2005
"Glad you boy's chose to stop by!" Duilin says to Tsu. He then hoped onto the hourse. "Tsu, I want you and the others, to fight off the soilders. I'm gonna blow this god forsaken palace to dust. I won't go far!"
Duilin used to ride hourses back when he was with the Empire, so he knew a bit. He rod the hourse, closer into the castle area. He swung his mace in circlular motion. And then casted fire into the hand he was holding the mace in.
"Something tells me, this will work!" He then swung the mace at one of the towers of the castle, it created a large firey disc. The mace seemed to have a strange power. The disc made the entire tower fall down, crushing several soilders. "Huh!? How do like that, pukas!?" Duilin yelled
After Rink nearly cleared the sky of the wyverin riders, the cannon ran out of ammo.
"Damnit!" Rink yelled. He then flied out of the tank. He then looked around, abit. And noticed that several more headed the way. "Ah, crap! Duilin! Get back here!"
He looked toward Tsu "Hey dude! You think can handle some Cart Tanks, I'm not exataclty the right size to be fighting about umm...5 of them!"
Duilin then ran his way back closer to were the others were, swinging his mace, at soilders that attacked him.
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"That's it. Those punks have gone to far! There weaking this castle to shreads! I'm going in!" Maxwell says. He straps on a chain of bolts, around him. And then runs out into the battle feild. "I can't belive one guy can do so much. It appears that there are three more! This has got to end!"
He hops into a hourse pulled cart, along with another soilder, to stear the hourse. He fires several bolts at Zion and Xenai.
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The shock troops slowy make there way back up. "Resume fire!" One shouts. And they continue to fire there shotguns at Zeros'.
Posted by: CyberWolf on Sunday February 27th, 2005
Armic smiled Grimly at what Draven had said, but was a bit dissapointed that he had to sit and wait in the the little room until the enemy poured in. He decided he'd wreak a bit of Havoc above ground while still below it.
He removed 2 of his silvery hairs and put one in each hand. He chanted an incantation in a language older than time itself. Only Qor and the most ancient of deamons were even aware of the tongues existance. as he chanted, louder with each repeat of the phrase, the silvery hairs in his hands began to glow red. Once they were burning in his hand, hot enough to sear metal, he broke his chant and shouted out in plain English, "Constructs of Dreams, Golems of Death itself, I command you, lend me thy power!"
As he finished his sentence, the hairs dissapeared from his hands, but something much, much bigger appeared above ground...
There, next to the Castle Gates, 2 Huge Demonflesh Golems appeared on either side of the door. Nearly 40 feet each, bleeding red blood to the ground with each movement of their exposed muscles. Almost completely red, they were fearsome looking beasts. Huge wings on their backs, and a deamon skull for a head. One look at them could make the queemish go into acoma.
Armic laughed as he controlled the beasts with his hands, like puppets.
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Nevina finally arrived on the scene, cursing Haraldur for going so fast.
Nevina drew her Holy Bastard sword and leaped into the frey. Cracking the skull of one soldier with the flat side of her blade, she then blasted a holy ball into a group of 5 soldiers, who blew up instantly from the hit. Their weapons flew out from the blast and one of the longswords impaled another soldier through the skull.
Posted by: Kahn on Sunday February 27th, 2005
Kahn looked towards the north.
"Well let's not waste any more time."
Posted by: Trent on Sunday February 27th, 2005
Zion and Xenai swatted the bolts away. Zion looked down to Tsu. "It's time!" he yelled.
Xenai looked at Zion, wide-eyed. "You're serious? On just this little bit of trouble?"
"We need to warm up to it."
"Alright, I suppose." Xenai looked down to Tsu. "Start charging energy! Prepare to accept a whole shitload of some too!"
Zion forced all of the energy out of Eternity Weapon, and Xenai forced all the energy out of Zero Weapon. They were glowing white and black, respectively, and with huge auras of the same color.
Tsu charged up as much energy as he could. For some reason, the intent of the trio caused Tsu to develop a large aura of... just heat waves.
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EW ---------- 10
ZW ---------- 10
Neither weapon will resume charging until New Forever has been executed.
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday February 27th, 2005
Zeros' glanced over his shoulder towards Tsu, Zion and Xenai and smiled at them. He mouthed "Thanks guys." to them. He then disapeared and reppeared near the double doors leading into the castle. He leaned forwards and eased the doors away and started strolling down the path towards where Armic was controlling the demons.
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday February 28th, 2005
Haraldur's aura flamed up, diverting the flames of Draven, causing a quite interesting paisley pattern to appear in the air for a few seconds.
Haraldur told Zeros' I suggest you get Qor, I can easily face Draven with few ill effects, and even if I do, he cannot kill me.
Haraldur slowly moved towards Draven, at the same time propelling two balls of ice towards him at great speed.
Pointing towards the two flesh golems, Haraldur shouted to Duilin "Deal with the new arrivals!"
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Ellenna picks Kahn up, and hovered 15 cm above the ground. She then flys/hovers northward at 30 metres per second.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday February 28th, 2005
"Holy shit!" Duilin yells as he sees the golems. The hourse scared as hells, jumps up, knocking Duilin off, and runs away. "Me kill them? No problom...*gulp*"
He spins the chain mace around a few times wile he walks toward one. The beats swings it's fist down at Duilin, Duilin quickly strafes out of the way of the giant fist. He swings the mace at the monsters fist, 3 times. Blood began to ooze out of the fist. The other one atempted to stomp on Duilin. Duilin dove out of the way, and then swung his mace 3 times at the monsters foot. Same result.
"Geez, talk about repitition!" He sized the monsters towering over him. He then flue up into the air and swung the mace at one's face. It then swung a punch back at him, but Duilin flue out of the way, and the golem punched the other in the face causeing it to fall to the ground. Duilin flue down right on the fallen monsters face and slamed the mace on the golem. The other monster, prepared to stomp it's foot on Duilin...
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The Cart Tanks rode there way to the group. On fireing at everyone, except Haraldur, Duilin and Zeros'.
Haveing there way blocked, the Shock Troops then ran into battle, prepareing to attack Tsu, Zion, Xenai and Nevina.
Maxwell. Rode his cart close up, and prepared for some brutal warfare. He stood up, and aimed a shot at Nevina, but sudenly Rink flue right at his face, and blocked his eyes. Maxwell looseing focus, fires a bolt at a Dark Empire soilder, killing him.
"What the hell!? Get off me!" Maxwell yells, as he rips Rink off. "Well what do we have here?"
Rink blast a small blast of fire at Maxwells face, knocking him down, dropping Rink. Maxwell fires his weapon at Rink, but missing by a inch, hitting the ground next to him...
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday February 28th, 2005
Sure.
Zeros' continues walking down the stairs towards the shrine Armic sits. He warily extends his senses, searching every shadow he came across.
"Quiet...too quiet." He murrmered as he pushed the door to the shrine open.
Posted by: Trent on Monday February 28th, 2005
The trio barely dodged the shots fired at them. Tsu jumped up to his partners, outstretching his arms. Zion and Xenai made contact, sending their energy into Tsu. They then floated there right next to Tsu, to watch the show. Xenai pointed out Rink, then Nevina. "Don't hurt that little guy there, or her either."
Tsu pulled back his palms, connecting his wrists. His hair had spiked up, and his pupils had heavily constricted. He was overflowing with electricity, and his aura was overflowing with black and white energy.
A huge ball of energy built in his hands. He pointed it in front of him.
"New Forever!!!"
The energy burst forward in an inconcievably large beam, nearly 100 feet wide. Charged with the energy of darkness, it could do extra damage, yet charged with the energy of light, it would spare those it slammed into that were intended to be safe.
As the beam slammed into the group, several soldiers were sent into the air and instantly vaporized, while it had no effect on Rink and Nevina except for warmth, and blinding light.
"HAAAAA!!!" The last bit of his gathered energy thundered forward amd finished off the attack with a bang.
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EW ---------- 10
ZW ---------- 10
Posted by: CyberWolf on Monday February 28th, 2005
Nevina was in awe as she watched the huge machine, then she was blinded by the light.
She fell down and began to rub her eyes, trying to regain her vision. It slowly returned, and found many Dark Empire soldiers had been killed by the attack.
"Neat trick..." She thought for a moment, but she quickly returned to her combat, sheathing her Bastard Sword, she drew her Scimitar and dirk, aiming for a more Finesse form of fighting this round. She ran and phased from visible to invisible as she charged along, then finally became fully visible as her blades gutted 2 Dark Empire soldiers.
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Armic felt his hands being tugged at, he knew his Demonflesh golems were taking some hits. His left hand seared as Golem A took a gash in it's skull, but he knew the beast would tough through much more abuse than that. He forced the Golem up and had it expose it's foot and a half long claws and it dived at Duilin, aiming to pick him up and impale his body with the sword-like appendages.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday February 28th, 2005
As the golem dived up, Duilin tumbled off. The golem reached to grab him, and impale him, but he swung his combat knife out, and casted fire into it, createing a fire blade, and swung it at the golem's hand, catching it on fire. He then thrusted his hand out, and blasted a fireball at the damage at the monster's head.
(I'll leave it up to CyberWolf if that kills it or not)
The other Golem, failing to stomp on him, walks over to the rubble of the castle, and picks up a large stone...
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Rink, seemed to be un effected by the blast, and barely noticed it. However, he noticed Maxwell being blinded by the light, so he used the opportunity to fly off, to were Nevina is. "Nevi...Duilin...needs....help...." Rink said slightly tired out.
"Arrg! What the hell was that?" Maxwell cried. "Were did he go? Ah, what's the bother. Hmm...those three seem to be causeing trouble..." He spoted the Trio.
"Wyvern riders, attack the ki bareing trio!" Maxwell ordered. Suddenly, 8 Wyvern's with riders armed with Cross Bows and 3 armed with Auto Shotguns, fired there weapons at Tsu, Zion, Xenai. He then looked at the two Golems "Hah, those two should kill that deamon. I suspect that one is Duilin, it shall be good to watch him die. Yet I would prefer to do it myself. Oh well. Hahahah!"
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday March 1st, 2005
High above, the burning Draven made a quick note of the last arrivals. How many are there, 6 or 7? Whatever. Close enough. He shot a final telepathic message to Armic before plunging into battle:
"They're all here. It is time..."
For the rest of the battle, his focus would be Haraldur alone...
Draven began a mad dash at The Bitter One, a red streak of flame scorching the sky behind him. The two powers' auras clashed violently as Draven stopped but a few inches from his adversary, where he aimed a flurry of intensely high speed punches at his opponent's head and chest, the very shockwaves of his burning fists upsetting the very foundations of the towers below...
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday March 1st, 2005
During Draven's flight, the temporary magic shield he had put over the axe shattered, and the axe glowed red, but this was not visible among the flames of Draven's aura.
Draven was a few inches away from him. Haraldur allowed his punches to hit him: he could handle the pain, although he flinched from some of the harder ones. At the same time, the axe was now really glowing now, and he touched it while being punched by Draven. The axe immediately melded with him because of his aura's presence.
Haraldur immediately turned his aura off, so Draven's punch to his head sent him flying 500 metres away in one second.
He smiled at Draven with his bleeding face, and said: "Goodbye..."
He shot upwards before vanishing.
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In his private dimension, Haraldur sat, amongst his belongings he had kept there since a small child, in his former elder Haraldur form. He smiled, wiped the blood off his face, and slept: he would not be able to leave for quite some time.
//Haraldur is now inactive.//
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Ellenna felt a force tug her forward at high speed, and she arrived above the whole battle, directly above the golems, carrying Kahn.
She screamed in terror, and then fell, clutching to Kahn in fright as a child would do to a teddy bear.
She was falling, falling, head first. She started praying to Kala with no real hope of salvation...
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The Great Prophet appeared above the battlefield as an image, and shouted "Behold! The Light has appeared in the air and is falling! The future of the world rests on your shoulders and on your quick thinking!"
He then disappeared.
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//Just in case: The magical shielding put on the weapon was temporary, and it would have been practically impossible for Draven to have stopped Haraldur touching the weapon in mod punch.//
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday March 1st, 2005
Ryu suddenly sprung awake, gasping for breath as he clutched his heart. He looked warily towards the battlefield where he could barely sense the aura's clashing together.
Ryu swung his feet over the bed and pushed off, wobbling slightly as he steadied himself. He walked out the door and peered in the direction of the battle and sighed. He concentrated his ki and chakra towards his cloak, his aura springing to life as he looked towards the field, determined.
Suddenly, two leathry wing sprouted from his back and he lifted into the air and took flight, possibly towards his last battle.
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Zeros' entered the shrine and immediately spotted Armic. He grimced when he felt Haraldur's aura disappear.
Be on guard. There's somethin strange going on. Zeros' said telepathically to Duilin, Tsu, Xenai, Zion, Nevina, Rink, Ellenna and Khan. Draven has something up his sleeve. Keep your senses sharp. Don't worry about Qor either... Zeros' grimced. He's mine.
"Qor...how pleasent to see you." His voice dripped with sarcasim.
Posted by: CyberWolf on Tuesday March 1st, 2005
"Hmmph, you're looking horrible these days, Zeros'. Your father would not approve..." Armic said with a twisted scowl.
He turned his attention from Zeros', but still kept an eye on him, and held his sword close as he mumbled his incantation. He used only his left hand in the somatic component of the spell, keeping his right and his swords silver hilt.
His hand weaved around a red orb, growing in size. His hand was dyed red from the light, along with the left side of his face. He finished his verbal component and snatched the glowing red orb with his hand. He squeezed it, and as he applied force to the ball, a rip appeared outside, behind the warriors above. It too was red. It started small, a mere seam undone in the fabric of space. As moments passed, the small hole turned into a huge, gaping chasm. Within you could see a dwelling of ice, with human souls trapped within the confines of the icey prisms. It was the 9th level of hell, Qor himselfs dwelling.
Deamons bursted forth, these much stronger than the ones previously encountered. Many of them not unlike Zeros' himself.
//Zeros': You don't mind all these references to your characters Demonic heritage, do you? If so, I can edit the post if you want.//
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The Golem fell to the ground, moaning in pain, and as he fell, he broke his wings under his own weight.
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Nevina charges at the downed giant and slashes at it's hands, severing several of it's fingers as massive amounts of blood spew fom the Golems wound.
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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday March 1st, 2005
Duilin looked at the spirt of The Great Prophet. "Him again!" Duilin then spoted Ellena falling down to the ground. "I must save her!" He jumped onto the downed Golem and then flue into the air. And grabed Kahn and Ellena.
"Gotcha!" Duilin says "Ooo, boy...Not cut out to carry two people..." Duilin slowly glides down onto the ground, and gently places them down on the ground. "You kids be carefull now. I'm Duilin by the way." He let's them go. He looks at Kahn "Make sure she dosen't get harmed! Something tells me she's very important..."
//Cyber Wolf, are the demon's in our view?//
Posted by: CyberWolf on Tuesday March 1st, 2005
//unless soldiers are in the way, yes//
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday March 1st, 2005
Draven looked at his glowing fist as he realized Haraldur had just ripped off the weapon...
"You son of a..."
He shot after the man, blazing forward then banking upward as Haraldur flew skywards. Draven was almost upon him when he vanished into thin air... Draven overshot the spot where his opponent was, turning around and looking left to right as his flight slowed.
"Coward! Where did YOU GOOOO?!?!"
His voice boomed through the battle field, but his only reply was the wind...
His eyes darted back and forth as he gritted his teeth. His adversary's presence was gone...
"Can't believe... the blasted teleport trick again..."
He threw his hands out to his side, flaring his aura of flame once more.
"GYAH!! Very well! All of your friends DIE!!!!"
The burning madman began to descend on the dark fortress like a comet in the sky, coming from the opposite direction of the horde of impending demons...
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday March 2nd, 2005
//I don't mind.\\
"Yes...how nice." Zeros' spat. "Don't you talk about my father that way. He was one of the greatest taiyoukai (full demon) ever. He was stronger then Qor ever was..." He gritted his teeth as he felt the output of youkai (pure demon energy. Referance from Inuyasha.).
Zeros' slowly stepped forwards, his left hand resting on the hilt of his Masamune, slowly circling Armic as he gazed at him with the utmost hatred.
"Yes Qor...I can finally have my revenge for my mother and father." Guys...good luck. I'm sorry I can't help yall. I have my own problem to take care of. He sent telepathically to all his companions, even the approaching Kami-ryu.
"Shall we dance?" Zeros' asked as he jumpped back and his left hand blurred in speed, making his katana to become unsheathed and transform, sending a ki wave rippling across the ground, tearing up granite as it flew towards Armic.
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Ryu stopped his flight and gently hovered into the air, looking towards the battle field.
"Damnit..." Ryu cursed under his breath and started flying with renewed vigor, his feet skimming the ground as wave passed in his wake.
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday March 2nd, 2005
The Great Prophet materialised before Draven in a solid form, saying: "I do not believe that would be a good idea in the long term, Sonny Jim..."
He was standing in the air, resting on a staff which was resting on the air. He looked old, very old.
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Ellenna let go of Kahn. She looked at the Golem Nevina was fighting, and launched a small, weak ice spell, hoping to distract it from Nevina, giving her a chance to attack more easily.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday March 2nd, 2005
Maxwell then spoted that Draven was running toward the battle feild, "Good, maybe we can accually KILL something now!"
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Duilin spoted the hord of demon's flying toward the battle feild. "Aw, crap!" He yelled. "Guy's we got more company!" He says as he twirls the mace.
"Qor has just gone to far, this time..." Rink plucks at bolt from the ground, and holds it like a spear. "You'll never take me back!"
A demon charges at Duilin, he swings his mace right at the demon's face, knocking it down. Surprizeinly the demon survived it. "What the..." The demon jumps back up at him, but he swings the mace at the demon's face again, killing it.
Rink runs off into the battle feild giveing a war cry like yell. He then stops and then sees how insanly out powered he is. He runs away giveing a scared girl like yell. He jumps into a broken down Cart Tank and hides. Duilin glares at Rink as he jumps into his hideing spot. Rink then pokes his head up and shakes his fist at Duilin wile yelling
"What the hell do you think I am! I'm not fighting damn demons! Holy shit!"
Posted by: CyberWolf on Wednesday March 2nd, 2005
Armic became translucent and siffed himself away from Zeros' charge, up behind him.
"Hssss... Perhaps he was... but he followed me!" Armic hissed at Zeros', his weapon drawn, but it was loose by his side. He stayed translucent.
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The Golem lept up from the ground, knowing he was in danger if lying upon the ground. His wings broke, His hand gushing blood, he knew he was doomed unless he fought harder. He held his hands as if he was holding a huge sword, and slowly a huge, 30 foot sword, just his size, made entirely out of flame appeared in his hand.
Ellenna's ice spell struck the blade and merely hissed as the fire over powered in, but the Golem turned his attention to Ellenna now, instead of Nevina. He swung his mighty sword at the little priestess, hoping to sever her from her legs easily.
//Just to let you know, the Golems are on Auto-Pilot right now. Armic can still control them if he wishes, but since he is inputing no commands, the Golems are acting on their own. You guys are free to control them by the way, as long as you don't make them switch sides or something. They're bound to the Crimson Empire.//
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Nevina charged, this time with her Holy Bastard sword. She came close to slicing the Demonflesh golems ahkillese (sp?) heel, but the other golem quickly parried the blow with his massive 7 foot, rock solid toenail.
Nevina shook as she struck the appendage, her sword shaking horribly afterwards.
(You know how when you whack something with a lead pipe and the lead pipe can't break it and it shakes the pipe and yur arms and feels funny? Yah, that's what happened)
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday March 2nd, 2005
Duilin then thinks for a moment. He then waits untill a few demons fly at him. "Come on punks!" He yells. He then, drags them and then stops. "Try and get me, scum sukers!" He taunghts. The demons begin to charge fireballs at him, Duilin then runs at the second golem, and flies onto it, wile running up it. The demons then toss there fireballs at him, they but they hit the golem instead. The golem growls in pain. Duilin then, swings his mace right between, the eye's with demon fire flowing threw the mace. The golem, then falls to the ground. "Who's your daddy!?"
Duilin then spots the other golem, readying to attack Ellena "No! SAVE HER!"
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Maxwell, then stops and points at a few demons. "You! Who are you?" He asks. The demons look at him, but say nothing. "Your on our side right?"
The demons nod.
"Well then come with me! We need to start killing people..."
Maxwell then fires a bolt at Nevina. The demons then both begen to charge Demon Fire (AKA Fire Ball of Death)
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday March 2nd, 2005
(Achilles' tendon. Heh...)
Draven stopped in mid air, turning to the old man, his aura still burning brightly.
"Eh? Who in blazes are you? And why not?"
He folded his arms and looked at the prophet inquisitively...
"Or do you just want to be first?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday March 3rd, 2005
Ellenna jumps as the huge sword slashes underneath her feet. Realising she could not win this fight, she runs a little way away, to the body of the other golem.
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The Great Prophet sighed. "Young men of today..." he said. "Always so brash and aggressive....
"Tell me... have you ever actually seriously thought about what you do?"
Posted by: Trent on Thursday March 3rd, 2005
//Forgive me. Lost internet at Dad's. Posting from friend's. Might get it back today, might not.
The trio dropped to the ground, barely avoiding the arrows. They charged into battle and started to hack away at the stuff attacking them.
Okay... I can feel it starting now. Zion had recieved Zeros' message, and was now feeling Draven's power increase.
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EW --------- 9
ZW --------- 9
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday March 3rd, 2005
Zeros' looks at Armic, rage burning in his emerald eyes as he held his sword, point towards the ground.
"Yes...I know..." Zeros' holds out his right palm and forms a sphere of ki the blackest color known to man. Even light cannot escape. He launches the beachball sized orb at Armic, not expecting it to hit.
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Ryu lands right behind Ellenna, his cloak reforming back into the crimson flowing material, both sword out, ruby eyes glinting in his right palm, sapphire in his left.
He looks behind himself and looks back towards the demon, just intime to intercept a blow from a rather nasty gorgan demon. This demon isn't very common, yet not that unique. It had tanned skin with four eyes and six well muscled arms as it towered over seven feet tall.
Ryu grits his teeth as he pushes against the demon's arms, gashing them as they cut into the muscled arms. With a roar, Ryu pushed the monster off balance, casing it to stumble slightly, but just enough for Ryu to use his ki and minipulate his cloak, causing a dozen of spikes to form out of his crimson cape (he has a cloak made of black and a small crimson cape that goes just below the small of his back), piercing the demon through the eyes, arms, jugular vein and forehead.
The gorgan demon roared in pain as blood sputtered out of the wounds, flowing down his tanned body, forming a steadily growing pool of blood beneith his feet as he falls to the ground with a gutrial cry of pain, dead, as Ryu's cloak forms and he looks towards Ellenna.
"You ok?" He askes as he scans the grounds for more threats.
Posted by: Trent on Thursday March 3rd, 2005
//Internet up. But I'm not gonna post yet. <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='happy.gif' />
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday March 3rd, 2005
Duilin. Then flies down by Kami-Ryu. "Glad you were able to come!" He says. "Protect her, something tells me she is extremely important!" He adds. He then walks abit off, as a dark soilder runs at him. He picks him up and then punches him in the mouth, causeing his hand to break his teeth and go right in his mouth, he casts flame into the soilders mouth, quickly burning him to a crisp. A demon then runs at him, Brute Demon, no wings just big and strong with a dragon like head, useally just bites his apponets. As the monsters runs at him, and prepares to bite him, Duilin blocks with his left arm, causeing it to bite his arm rather then his face. Duilin yells in pain, but fights threw it, he swings the mace at the demons head, breaking it neck, killing it instantly. "Oww...."
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"Man, all this action, and I'm missing out on it...Maybe I should go out there..." Rink looks about, slightly revealing himself from his hideing spot. "Hmm....dosen't seem to bad, just Duilin and the guys fending of demons and soilders...maybe I can handle it..."
He climbs out, suddenly a fellow Imp flies at him. "Traitor!" He hisses!
"Gah!" Rink cries. Rink then swings a punch right at the Imps face. The Imp kicks Rink in the torso. Rink then falls back, and the Imp walks over to him. Rink then trusts the crossbow bolt he had in his other hand at the Imp's chest. "Gotcha!" he says as he trusts it in more. The Imp then falls down dead.
Rink sighs and then plops down on the ground "Geez...he was right...I am traitor....Ah well! Hahahaha!"
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday March 3rd, 2005
Draven squinted at the old man.
"Psh! Is that all you have to say? Yes, you senile old fool, I know exactly what I'm doing, and exactly what needs to be done. I should kill you for making such an impudent remark, but by the looks of it, you're about to fall over dead any minute anyway, so why waste the energy..."
Draven let loose an intense shockwave of heated air with enough force to knock any normal man right out of the sky.
"Now, out of my way!"
He blasted forward through the sky, leaving a crimson streak behind him...
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday March 4th, 2005
The Great Prophet brought his staff out in front of him, splitting the shockwave in two and away from him. He then followed Draven.
Posted by: CyberWolf on Friday March 4th, 2005
The ball of Dark Energy passes through Armic's translucent body, but causes him to have to solidify. Now completely solid, Armic merely laughed at Zeros'. "Heh, yes, let us cry!" Armic said, mocking his opponents grief/rage.
"You know... Your father was a great servent... And was appropriately rewarded. Why don't you just return to your fathers ways...?" Armc said, as if giving Zeros' a proposition. He quickly drew his blade though, as to parry any more attacks Zeros' brought on.
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Nevina glowed with an awesome aura or white light. Its purity was so great, the Golems were forced to step back from her. As the aura growed, it formed a sphere around her. It kept growing, convulsing, spinning with each increasing centimeter. Soon it was a full 5 feet in diameter, and then it began to deplete rapidly, looking as if it was going to implode. Once it got to Nevinas skin, It expanded quickly and exploded into an awesome burst of white light, blinding everyone within a half a mile radius momentarily.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday March 4th, 2005
//Cyber Wolf! You need to pay atteintion! Maxwell fired a bolt at Nevina!//
Duilin, blocked his eyes wile Nevina's light blasted out. "Yikes!" Duilin crie. Duilin seems to more quickly recover from the blinding light, then the others, probally because of his demon powers.
He takes that to his advantage, and flies at the golem he recently knocked down. And smashes it in both eyes with demon fire flowing threw his mace.
Rink seems to be almost totally uneffected by the flash of light. He then begins running at Dark Soilder, he grabs the warriors sword and throws it down at the soilder the sword get's stuck right in the man, killing him instantly. "Hoo Hah!"
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday March 4th, 2005
Ryu seems unaffected as he lifts his left hand towards his bandage and rips it off, revealing the rotted skin, blood red eye and bulging veins, which appeared all around the skin of the eye and also several surrounded the outsides of the eyes, giving it a ghastly appearance as it swirled with a black pinwheel, four comma making their appearance as they swirled wildly, the eyes rotating in every direction, giving him a 360 degree view.
[As the limiter to his power was decreased, his bloodline, his power grew to a level 2]
Ryu lowered his swords as he backup, blocking, parrying and attacking any demon or imp that came nearer towards Ellenna.
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Zeros' formed his face into an indifference mask. He knew he had more training then Armic/Qor would ever hope to have as well as being equal in power right at the moment, but he stil hadn't released all the limiters on his power.
Zeros' disappeared from sight, closing the distance faster then any human or most demons could follow and reappeared in front of Armic, sword trailing in the ground, leaving a long gash, slashing upwards at Armic.
Posted by: Trent on Friday March 4th, 2005
Zion noticed Draven flying off. "Tsu, stay here! Xenai, let's go!" He and Xenai took off toward Draven, while Tsu stayed back, confidenty knocking out all the soldiers with Kuon Yaiba, one by one.
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EW -------- 8
ZW -------- 8
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday March 4th, 2005
Duilin overherd Zion saying Draven was comeing. "What? That mean....No...impossible!"
Duilin, belived that Draven defeated Haraldur. With great rage, he smashes at the Golem's face another time. The golem being totally blinded, he then punches the golem in the eye, and then blasts a fireball right into the golem's head. The golem head beings burning up with fire and it falls down to the ground, with an earth shakeing thud, and dies (Hope that's cool, CW). "Ahhh!" Duilin yells. He then craks his knuckles and begins flying toward Draven. He flies over Zion and Xenai "I'm helping you guys fight him..."
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday March 4th, 2005
A blinding light emanated from behind one of the walls of the crumbling fortress which caught Draven's attention. Flying lower, Draven weaved through the towers that were still standing with interest and saw Nevina in the distance.
"Well, what do we have here...?"
However, before he could come close, he noticed a party of three approaching him and immediately lost interest in the elf girl.
Draven stopped suddenly and dropped down to land on the peak of a mound of rubble. Aura still burning brightly, he folded his arms and smirked up at the three specks as they came into view.
Hum, more winged fools... we'll just have to clip them... Let's see... Teal-head's back for more... as is Duilin the loser... and... hmm? Is that Xenai?
"Xenai, Xenai, don't tell me you're ignorant enough to renounce your obligations as well... How unfortunate. Yet another to be added to the long list of traitors, done in by their own misjudgment... What a shameful end."
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday March 5th, 2005
Ryu eyed the battlefield warrily as he slashed upwards with his sapphire sword, sending a demon sprawling towards the ground, a deep cut from his abdominal to his jugular vein, blood steadily leaking out. He flipped the sword in his hands, holding them so the point of the blades face behind him and quickly formed several complicated handseals.
[This is because if the hand seals in a NinJutsu are not performed correctly, the Chakra will be released wrong and a different effect will occur, probably failing the Jutsu. As a result, Hand Seals need a lot of concentration, which is why techniques cannot be interrupted, or the technique will definately fail. In the lines below, we have gathered images of all of the most frequent hand seals.]
"Mugensajin Daitopa no Jutsu!" He yelled. He held his hands up to his mouth as a vicious stream of wind and sand exploded from his mouth, catching the demon by surprise. Ryu kept the stream going as the sand started to form into sharp-like blades, using his chakra to minipulate them, cutting at the flesh of the demon.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday March 5th, 2005
The Great Prophet was blinded, and disappeared, saying "Damn, why do the runes always have to scuff?"
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For want of anything better to do, Ellenna smashed an unsuspecting demon's skull, before blocking a hit from another.
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A hole opened up in the dimension of Haraldur's. Hmmm... strange he thought. That is unusually fast. Well, it is random, so it must do this some of the time.
He should land close to his companions: now that five of the weapons were found, finding the last would be easy, very easy.
He entered the hole.
He was going through a gleaming blue waving tunnel, at huge speed, he moved into a side alley an came out above the world, 500 metres above the ensuing battle.
He watched to see what was happening, while keeping himself invisible.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday March 5th, 2005
"Draven!" Duilin called in rage "What did you do to Haraldur?" He landed on the ground standing about 5 feet away from Draven "What did you do to him?" He repeated. Yellow electricity seemed to flow threw his hands for a split second, and his eyes gave a slight glow.
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Rink turns around, and shifts his eyes "Were's Duilin?" He asks himself, he then spots him abit further away, with Zion and Xenai and some other person. "Must, be that Draven, person." Rink then scratches his chin "Hmm...Duilin is supose to destroy the castle, but it dosen't look like he's getting much of a chance, he keeps on getting attack...Why is that? Because he makes so much of a scene! He's got those huge wings and glowing yellow eyes when in attack mode, who wouldn't notice a guy like that. Yet! There a abunch of little Imps, alot of them probally don't even know that I'm not with the rest of them...So....Hahaha!" Rink then happily runs off, into the derection of the castle, the demons not seeming to notice him.
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday March 5th, 2005
Draven glanced down at Duilin from atop the mound of rubble.
"You mean Ragnar? That miserable wretch of a coward. You put too much trust in your allies..."
Draven pressed his hands together in front of him and slowly brought them apart, a pillar of fire surging in between them. When he was satisfied with the length, he grabbed one end with his right hand, the flame forging into a burning sword.
"He has one goal only. And it doesn't involve the safety of you or your friends..."
The fortress was burning in several places. The intense auras of the fighters, combined with the disterbance of the open gate to the underworld was causing tremors and random fissures of exploding lava to blast apart the ground...
Crimson blade in hand, Draven leapt off the mound, dashing madly at Duilin. The burst from his crimson aura caused the rocks from the top of the rubble to fly into the air, disintegrating half of them cause the rest to rain down as burning meteors.
As he flew towards Duilin, Draven brought the blade above his head and slashed to the side, causing a crescent shaped wave of flame to fly ahead of him, straight for his new opponent...
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A blood-curdling roar emanated from the dimensional rift that the demons were pouring from... Something was coming...
Posted by: CyberWolf on Saturday March 5th, 2005
//Oi. I thought someone attacked Nevina, but wasen't sure. Oh well, I'll fix that.... and yeah, it's fine you killed a Golem. They're lasting longer than I was expecting. But did you kill the sword-barring one or the other?//
Armic had trouble seeing the attack, but Qor caught it quite easily. Armic having no idea what had happened, he noticed Qor had guided their hand into the direction of the blade, grabbing it to a stop.
The blade obviously damaged their hand, but only slightly. Between the gloves protection and his dead stone skin, he took relatively low damage to his hand. Hardly enough to make him wince.
After grasping the blade, Armic held onto it, keeping Zeros' in place, he swung out his own sword in a quick stabbing motion, aiming to run Zeros' through.
//While it may seem Armic has too much resistance, you have to take into account the resistance is only versus melee attacks. Armic is extremely vulnerable to Holy Magic, which makes up for his melee resistance.//
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After the blast, Nevina appeared to be colapsed on the ground, victim of a bolt attack from an unknown (to her) attacker.
Posted by: Trent on Saturday March 5th, 2005
Xenai smirked at Draven as the trio landed. "Renounce my obligations? I've just come to my senses."
Zion cracked his knuckles. "This time, the fight won't be so evenly matched."
The roar was noticed by the trio, and caused Tsu to take a hit, but come back two times harder. Zion and Xenai were focused on Draven.
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EW ------- 7
ZW ------- 7
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday March 5th, 2005
Maxwell grined as he saw, his target, knocked down on the ground. "And that my friends is what I want you damn soilders to do!" He walked over towards Nevina, to check if she was alive...
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Duilin curled his fingers into a fist, as he did it more yellow electric energy flew threw his hands, but lasted abit longer. His eyes also began go glow more...
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Rink then came up to a castle wall, he began climbing it, there was nobody there but a single guard, all the rest were out on the battle feild being slaughted by others most likey...
The guard spoted the small red imp. "Hey! Your not supose to be here!" He fired his cross bow at Rink, but he blasted the bolt with a small blast of firel, knocking it off corse, and it fell to the ground burning. "Uh oh..."
Rink gave a badass grin and then arived at the top of the wall. The guard droped his weapon, obivously he was a cowardly soilder.
Rink picked up the cross bow, it was quite to big for him to be carrying around but he seemed to be able to lift it very easily, he threw it at the soilder. The weapon hit the soilder in the head, knocking him out. Rink rubed his hands together "Allright, they gotta have something here!" He then ran across the wall, untill he spoted a trap door. He opened it up and then hoped down. It was a small room, with barrels of gun powder, and cannon balls and various weapons and armor.
"Hahah! This should do!" Rink laughed
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday March 5th, 2005
Zeros', using his incrediable speed, dodged to the side while Armic still held his sword. He smirked as he watched the reactions.
"I see." Zeros' said quietly as he looked Armic directly into the face. "So, the little one is only a pawn in your plans, Qor. How dispicable. Using your followers lives, giving them power so you can control them. This one must have stronger wills then the ones before." Zeros' commented. He then spread all eight of his black angel wings out and concentrated on using his god/goddess heritage.
Soon enough the sword glowed with holy energy, white enough to blind any who look into it.
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Ryu backflipped away from an attack, only to have a demon hit him in his left side, right where the gash was. He gasped in pain as the wound reopened, blood flowing freely down his side, but he concentrated his chakra and ki, stopping the bloodflow, but not closing the wound.
He then stabbed backwards, catching a demon in the stomach, causing it to gasp in pain and grab its middle, doubling over as he wrenched his ruby sword.
"We need to get out of here, miss." Ryu shouted towards Ellenna as he pushed off an attack made by a demon to his right arm, which luckly was made of metal.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday March 5th, 2005
Ellenna said to Ryu "Where should we go?"
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Haraldur saw and heard the exchange of words between Draven and Duilin, and saw the crescent of fire flying towards Duilin.
With a burst of noise, like a cannon, a wall of ice dropped between the two, causing an explosion as it intercepted the fire crescent.
"Ah, Draven, I see another has caught your attention. I am glad to see you have been affected by my timely tactical retreat."
He moved his hands as if fondling a sphere, and a hollow icy one surrounded Draven, and started to shrink, like the Big Bang in reverse. He hoped it would last for a while.
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday March 5th, 2005
"I have no idea" He said while ducking under a swipe, "but we need to get out of here. I cannot hold them off forever."
Posted by: Kahn on Sunday March 6th, 2005
Kahn walked over to Ellenna and Ryu and withdrew his gun.
"You two best escape while you can. I should be able to hold em off till you're gone."
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday March 6th, 2005
Duilin touched the wall of ice, as it fell between him and Draven. He then sees Haraldur "Your alive!" He then walks back abit and then jumps into the air, and flies up 65 feet. "I herd something...." He then looks at the dimensional rift "Whatever it is....I'll protect my friends from it, Haraldur can take care of Draven...."
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Rink then rolled around the barrels of gun power all around, he pointed a cannons at servel spots in the room, he attached the wicks on the cannons together. "This should be fun to watch!" Rink laughed. He then blasted fire at the wick, and then flew off, out of the tower and landed on the ground a safe distance. Then a huge explotion takeing several soilders, blowing away neary a quater of the huge castle, peice of the castle flew off in many directions, makeing tiny craters at they hit the ground. Rink held his hand in salute as the explotion went off.
"Long, live the Empire, my ass!" Rink laughed "Hahaha!"
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday March 6th, 2005
"Eh?"
Draven made a dead stop, planting his foot a good several inches into the ground as the sphere of ice surrounded him.
"Wonderful..."
As the sphere shrunk around him, he jammed his crimson blade above and to the right, weakening the attack in just that one spot enough for him to break though. As he dove through the small hole, the rest of the icy sphere collapsed upon where he was, creating a small blue explosion that knocked him away before he could land. He spun through the air and rolled once on the ground before catching himself, balancing on one foot and one knee.
Draven leapt backwards several feet, so that he may keep Haraldur in the air and other adversaries on the ground in his view. Assuming a sort of martial arts stance, he spun the crimson blade in his right hand and held it above his head, extending his left hand before him.
Not again! Where are all the soldiers?! Where are all the demons?! BLAST IT!! With teeth clenched, the burning Draven shifted his eyes from warrior to warrior with glaring hate...
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Another hideous roar from the dimensional rift... A few more demons began pouring out, but these did not have the look of battle ready killers, rather, they were terrified...
Suddenly, a huge dragon-esque skull jutted out of the opening, glowing crimson orbs for eyes in it's empty sockets. Skeleton claws clasped the two sides of the rift, ripping it open wider. The hole was not big enough for the thing to fit through...
When it managed to pull the rift open to twice its size, it jumped out, the earth quaking as it landed on the ground. It was a complete skeletal dragon, over 30 feet tall, though it's posture was hunched. Tremendous spikes of bone jutted from its back. It was a Necrodragon.
(Yes from DA2. Heh...)
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday March 6th, 2005
"Holy crap!" Duilin cried, as he spoted the Necrodragon. He landed on the ground, near by Ryu, Ellena and Kahn.
"Ryu, get the girl out here!" Duilin tells Ryu, he then looks at Ellena "Miss, Haraldur, is okay, you should be re united with him shortly..." He then looks at Kahn "If you wish to live by all means, run. But I wouldn't mind some back up fire..."
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Rink turns around as he spots the Necrodragon "Aw, man, now why the hell did they let that guy loose?"
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Maxwell then gasps as the Necrodragon appears. "Ahhh!!!" He then forgets exactly what he was doing, all his coruage seems to drain from his body...
"RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!! DON'T LET THAT THING HURT ME!"
The soilders then begin running back to the castle, scared for there pointless little lives. Maxwell runs by Draven "IT WILL KILL US ALL, DRAVEN! RUN!"
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Duilin then tilts himself in a fighting stance, and walks abit closer to the Necrodragon. He then closes his eyes "Focus...just focus...." He then cluches his right hand, and then trusts it out, the yellow energy begins to flow threw his hands. His eyes go to there full glow, as like they were when he battled Pheonix. He then opens his hand, fire and energy begin circle in his hand, it froms a large ball of fire and energy. It grew to 15 ft in radious, and then he tossed the energy blast at the Necrodragon...
//It's an NPC, right?//
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday March 6th, 2005
Ryu grabs Ellenna's hand and starts running the opposite direction, his sapphire sword still clenched in his left hand as he pulled her along with his right; away from the dragon.
He knew he had to fight it, but he had to get Ellenna out of the area first. He looked around the field of blood and body parts, his magical eyes rolling around in his head, searching, as his other eye scanned for shelter.
Posted by: Trent on Sunday March 6th, 2005
"HOLY F*CKING HELL!!!" Xenai's eyes were widened at the sight of the Necrodragon.
"Oh... my... god..." Zion was trembling.
Tsu watched the Necrodragon from afar, able to feel its intense evil energy without having any real ki abilities. He gulped a heavy gulp, then restored his focus onto his target, which had fled. He turned around and took off toward Zion and Xenai.
Zion looked to Xenai. "We've got to get a grip... We'll finish charging up our weapons, and unleash them on it."
"No... New Forever. We should do New Forever." Xenai's eyes were still affixed on it. After some hesitation, he turned focus to Draven, along with Zion. "We'll see what we do when we're charged up," said Zion, "but I myself think we'll be able to draw an adequate amount of energy from ourselves."
The duo charged at Draven, their swords ready to strike.
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EW ------ 6
ZW ------ 6
Posted by: CyberWolf on Sunday March 6th, 2005
"Hmmph. I promised Armic nothing." Said Qor. "I merely helped him escape the clutches of society... It's not his fault he was... vampire spawn." As Qor finished this sentence, Armic was shocked. He never knew he was born evil. At this point, as Armic tried to cope with his disbelief, Qor took over almost completely.
"I am no different from any other god... I do not lure people to me, people seek me, for benefits. We just have different ideas of helping. And the 'holy' gods look down on me because of this. Hmmph." He said.
Then as the sword glowed with it's holy energy, is seared their hand. They relenquished their grip from the blade, and quickly retreated, hissing, eyes closed from the blinding light, their hand still smoking from the burn.
Qor put the injured hand behind him, and began weaving it frantically in a somatic component, careful not to let Zeros' see it.
"So... Why do you you turn your back on your own heritage, Zeros'? Are you ashamed of your father? He would not approve of your behavior. Why do you choose to be a Heretic against your own kind?" Qor provoked, trying to keep Zeros' distracted.
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday March 7th, 2005
Ellenna said, "Haraldur? Who is Haraldur? What are you talking about?"
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Haraldur told Zeros': How long do you think you will take? If we get out of here, we will easily be able to find the last weapon, since we have the other five. I will show you why. So do not hesitate to retreat from your combat if it does not look like you will easily win.
Haraldur told Duilin: Be prepared to leave here at short notice, we have everything we need from this place, and we seem to have outstayed our welcome.
Haraldur saw that the castle had one last remaining tall pointy tower. He held his arm out towards it, and a spectral arm appeared, which stretched to the tower, and broke it off. It then dropped it point first on Draven.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday March 7th, 2005
"Huh? Oh nothing....it's just....nevermind...." Duilin replies to Ellena, "Now go! Quick!"
Haraldur's message entered his mind. Duilin then nodded his head Very well, but we might I might have to kill this monster..., Duilin was not sure if his telpathic message worked, he hasn't really mastered it, but he tried...
//That happend before Duilin attacked the Necrodragon//
The energy blast exploted as it hit the Necrodragon, it yelled in pain. But the blast didn't seem enough.
"Damnit..." Duilin then swung the chain mace around. "It should work with demon energy..." the yellow energy then flew threw his hands, and into the mace, the mace formed it into a energy disc, and then Duilin swung the mace in the derection of the monster, blasting the demon energy at it! The only thing it acomplished was causeing a mark on one of the leg bones...
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday March 7th, 2005
Zeros' caught the message and replied: Don't worry, I'll be fine. I have something to settle with Qor anyways. If you need to, take Ryu with you. I will not die before my time. He sent the message to Haraldur.
"I am not ashamed of my...father. Rather I'd want to tear him limb from limb, but not ashamed." He growled. "As for my heritage, if you did not notice, I am both a demon and a god. I use both sides of my heritage equally and as I choose fit! I am not a heretic of my own kind! Most demons would give me praise, using any advantage I have for my own gain!" He yelled, not in anger, but as stating a fact, and charged at Qor, holy energy still charged as he disappeared from sight and reappearing infront of Qor in an instant, slashing at him as the blade left a trail of holy energy.
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Ryu stopped in mid-stride as he glanced towards the dragon and pivoted on his foot, twisting Ellenna in front of him and pushing her forwards, pointing towards a patch of trees as he released her hand.
"Go towards their. I must fight the dragon." He said as he glanced at the Necrodragon. "I will meet you soon." He said as he sprinting towards the Necrodragon, both of his sword clasped in his hands.
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday March 7th, 2005
Ellenna hid among the trees.
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Haraldur told Zeros': In that case, I will stay. There is no point me leaving now without all 5 weapons in one place.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday March 7th, 2005
"Glad to see you Ryu!" Duilin says as he see him running. "This thing is strong! Were going to have to do some heavy dudey attacks..."
Duilin then cluches his hands and then energy flows threw his arms, he opens his hands and beings arborbing fire, combineing demon fire and demon energy together. He then began forming it into a large ball....but he didn't stop there, he continued aborbing heat and chargeing energy, he was createing alot of fire, considering the pits of hell were not to far away....
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Rink contined walking toward Duilin, Ryu and Lars. "Geez, that Necrodragon sure looks angry, and the thing hasn't even attacked them yet!" Rink shook his head. "Well good thing it hasn't. That thing would probally kill them in a single swipe, or two..."
He looks behind him and looks at all the people and demons running "Geez...such cowards...I know that thing won't hurt me...I'm probally to little for the damn thing to see me!" He looks back at the group, he's standing about 50 feet away from them "Soon, he'll crack. Soon, he'll go beserk, and wipe that thing out...I can smell it!"
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday March 7th, 2005
Draven made a leap to his left in an effort to avoid both Xenai and Zion's charge and the falling tower. Taking flight at mid leap, he rose higher, charging energy into his left hand. But before he could attack, he caught glimpse of the gargantuan skeleton monster towering over the rubble...
"What in blazes...? AH HA HA HA!!! Game over, cretins!"
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The Necrodragon became infuriated at Duilin. It opened its jaw, violet and black masses of energy visibly surging up its spine. It released over a dozen blasts of shadow energy. A few headed for Duilin, but the majority wildly sprayed across the crumbling fortress and battlefield, the resulting explosions causing mass chaos...
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday March 7th, 2005
Duilin flew from side to side, dodgeing the blasts. "I need to keep chargeing this blast...Just a teeny bit more...."
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Rink opened his eyes wide open "Yikes!" He cried. He snaped his fingers and dissappeared in a puff of smoke, it's a simple Imp trick, in half a second he reappeared, behind some rubble, a few feet way. "That's better...."
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday March 7th, 2005
//That seems like the house-elf's from Harry Potter, but they disappear with a *crack* in the air, not smoke.\\
Ryu dodged to the side as the blasts headed his way skimmed the ground, destroying them in bits of dirt, dust and grass. He mentally sighed as he went though his technique lists, clenching his swords tighter till his knuckles went white.
Posted by: CyberWolf on Tuesday March 8th, 2005
Armic arched backwards, avoiding the blade, but the Holy energy resonating from the strike came close enough to his Torso to make his skin boil under his coat and chain mail.
"They wouldn't approve if you were to try to use it against them. Hmmph, your Father may have been a great servant to my cause, but your mothers blood has tainted you. You're not worth salvaging." Qor said coldly.
As he finished his sentence, his spell grew hotter in his palm. He decided it was time... He withdrew his hand from behind him, and tossed the spell onto Zeros'. A red Pentagram began to glown under his feet. From the lines drew flames, which began gathering around Zeros' waist as a sphere.
It was a hellball, and as the pentagram began to fade, the sphere orbitted around Zeros', moving faster and faster. The detonation would be powerful enough to completely blow up the tiny room Armic and Zeros' stood in.
"Tootles." said Qor, smuggly, as he teleported to the Castle Roof. He heard a colossal explosion far below him...
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Nevina smelled the foulness of the Necrodragon, and began to awake with a grunt.
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday March 8th, 2005
[Second before Armic disappeared...]
Zeros' eyes glanced at Armic's hand, which just finished the spell and his eyes narrowed. He barely had enough time to use his ki and magic to erect a barrier, taking the blunt of the damage, but he was still hurled back and out of the room as it collapsed under the explosion.
Zeros' groaned as he sat up, his trench coat (which, by the way, weighed 3 tons) and under shirt were ripped to shreads while place where his training weights were placed hung in tatters. He sighed as he ripped them off, fling them to the side, crushing the ground underneath it.
Zeros' winced as he felt his heavily scarred (remember that every inch of his body is covered by some scar, except his groin and face. He also has one long scar from his right shoulder all the way down to his right palm, a scar made by his father) body. The brusises and cuts would heal in a few minutes, but the residual magic energies would take longer to heal, even with demonic and god healing.
He sighed as he spread all eight of his wings and flew out of the room, his sword clasped in his right hand, transformed to its 12 foot, 2 foot thick form, decorated with wicked spikes and metal that smelled and looked like rotting flesh.
He turned around and came face to face with Armic. The indention in the middle of his back was caused by Iduran's magical sword, point facing down his backside, was carefully turned away.
"Don't you worry about my mother or father. You'll be seeing my father soon in the afterlife, where you belong." Zeros' replied as he wings held him aloft.
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Ryu landed on his feet and slashed upwards with both sword, causing a sapphire and ruby colored crescent blast rocket from his left and right sword, respectively, heading towards the Necrodragon, empowered with his ki and chakra.
Posted by: Trent on Tuesday March 8th, 2005
"Shit!" Xenai shot upwards, Zion going with him. "Focus all efforts on the boner dragon!"
Tsu charged forward at the Necrodragon at full speed. "I hope he hasn't been drinking milk..." Pulling back the sword... "Kuon Suisei!" ...and shooting forward with amazing spring action! Right at the skull!
Zion gathered some energy from the sun. "By light, you shall fall!"
He shot high up into the air. "Hyperion!!!" With a swing of Eternity Weapon, many small balls of light energy were shot down at the boner dragon. Hehe. Boner dragon. Another swing of the sword, and a few larger balls were sent down. One more swing would send one big ball down. Zion then shot downwards as fast as he could, focusing the remaining light energy along with some of his own into the blade, and slashing down, intending to cut through the dragon. This attack was considerably less powerful than that used on Neptra.
"Get brittle bone disease, stupid boner dragon! Fire Beam! Water Beam! Wind Beam! Earth Beam!" Smaller-than-medium-sized waves of energy of the corresponding elements were fired at the Necrodragon in those order. He must have hit them in the right order, because... "Tetra Beam!" A larger wave was fired at the dragon, and was a swirl of all the elements, though not a direct mix. Zion and Xenai's attacks were both done in haste, and were thus, weaker.
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EW ----- 5
ZW ----- 5
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday March 8th, 2005
//Eon, you need to cut down with the inuendo! ie: bonner dragon, big balls...sheesh!//
The energy ball (not that type you sicko!) grew to 15 feet in diameter! (30 foot radius!)
"This should be enough!" Duilin then threw the energy ball into the Necro Dragon's mouth! "Who's your daddy!?!"
//I'll let Xorlak deside what that dose <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> //
Posted by: CyberWolf on Wednesday March 9th, 2005
Armic had regained his composeur, and had taken back over as the Dominant soul within his body.
Rising up from the ground as well, with his red, feather-bare demon wings, one with a scar from a previous battle with Ryu, Armic withdrew his staff, rested it upon his left forearm, and pointed the bloody red, ruby embedded tip at Zeros' head.
"Hmmph, to hell you say? Where I will be praised for Eternity? Bah, killing me would actually make life Better for me! Heh heh... I'm only hear to cause an armeddaggon. But you've worn on my nerves. I'll have to kill you first..."
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Nevina lept up from the ground to aid her comrads. As she charged towards the Necro Dragon, She focused all of her Holy Energy into her Bastard Sword. She Cried out "God Sabre!!" as her Sword began to gleam with Holy white aura. She Lept from the Ground, her Sword swinging down at the Necro Dragons tail.
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday March 9th, 2005
Zeros' wagged his finger in front of his face as he made a 'tsk' sound with his free hand while floating a few feet in front of Armic.
"Ah...young, what was it, Armci?" He questioned as he gazed at him with half lidded eyes. "I said I would kill you, but I didn't say how." He said with an evil gaze at Armic. "I will kill your spirit. Once I defeat you, I will leave you in a bloodied heap, within an inch of your life, but I will not kill you." He said with an evil chuckle.
"Oh no. I will not do that and you can thank your evil deity Qor for that. For after I beat you down within an inch of your life, I will use the god part of my blood to use an anceint, forbidden spell I came across. This 'spell' is the ultimate form of tourture. I will let you live and recover, but the spell I will cast will eat away at your life and magic force as your body will slowly drain of any energies, steadily making you weaker, draining your magic and lifeforce permanetly so they cannot recover." He let out another evil chuckle as he gazed at Armic.
"But that's not the best part. As the spell slowly drains all forces of life, it will allow you to hold onto a sliver of life, just enough to live, but you will not be able to move an inch and no matter how much demonic interferance you have. This spell also anchors YOUR soul and ANY other soul into your body to the sliver of lifeforce, which will never go away. Your body and soul will remain forever on Midgard, never allowed to pass on into the afterlife, then you will WISH I would have sent you into the next-life." Zeros' roared with laughter as he glared at Armic and smiled grimly.
"This is the ultimate tourture. I'm sure if you ask your Deity about it, as I'm sure he's well versed in this tourture method, that is, IF he stays around long enough." He said grimly with an evil glint still evedent in his eyes. As he was saying all this, he was chanting a spell in his head as he used his free hand and waved it in a vauge gesture.
Crackles of magical energy arched around the length of Zeros' and Armic, expanding for about 30 yards then stopping, forming a barrier around them, allowing nothing to get in or out, including souls, magic or bodies.
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday March 9th, 2005
(Hmm, forums weren't working yesterday...)
Draven smirked as Xenai and Zion went off to fight the monster. He slowly began flying towards Haraldur.
"Well now, it seems its just you and me once more..."
He stopped about fifty feet from his target and extended his left hand, which was glowing brightly with the energy he had collected previously, while he held his crimson blade loosely with his right. He quickly fired off three large burning spheres, each over three feet in diameter, but his aim was seemingly off... Two headed above and past his target, one to the left and right, and the third below...
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(15 ft diameter = 7.5 ft radius. Heh...)
The Bone... err... Necrodragon waved its claw at the crescent energy sent by Ryu, but the energy wave hit its wrist perfectly, severing it. The undead abomination became furious once more, but this was the perfect distraction as all of the other warriors began their attacks.
The Kuon Suisei created a large gash on the left side of it's skull, which it retorted by lunging at Tsu. But before it could reach him, it was slammed by the Hyperion. This combined with the Tetra Beam dislodged over half of it's ribs and its left arm. At the same time, Nevina's blade severed its tail half way. As it screamed in rage, Duilin's attack slammed it right in the mouth, which caused its upper body to explode, sending bone fragments in all directions. The lower half of its body collapsed as the dust rose, shaking the ground...
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Another roar eminated from the rift, identical to the Necrodragon's...
(You guys might want to do something about this portal. Heh...)
Posted by: Trent on Wednesday March 9th, 2005
//Dude Man, get your mind outta the gutter. Boner dragon was intentional, the energy balls weren't! Sicko. <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />
Tsu could do nothing to avoid getting hit. It took a whole lot outta his vital force. Zion and Xenai watched the dragon crumble. "At least that one's gone, said Zion."
"Here comes more," says Xenai, watching the rift.
"Drat."
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EW ---- 4
ZW ---- 4
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday March 9th, 2005
Ryu's magical eye immeaditely swirved towards the portal as he sheathed both his sword in two hidden sheaths that weren't visible on his body. He reached the edge of the portal and started forming a series of extremely complexe hand seals as chakra, ki and chi started to radiate of him in waves as it started to focus around him. As he stopped the complexe hand seals, chakra, ki and chi exploded outwards from him as he slammed his fists into the ground, palms opened.
"YOUKAI MENURI MONMYAKU NO JUTSU! (This roughly translates into "Demon Sealing Portal Skill/Technique")" He cried as line of chakra, ki and chi slowly wandered over the portal, first lining up in the middle and spreading out like a spider web, gradually growing in size and shape as they weeved around till the portal was complete covered in lines of body energies as a circle of twelve Chinese runes appeared, which were slowly circling out in clock-like form, turning clock-wise.
(These are the symbols are going clock-wise from 12, 1, 2, ect, starting from 12 and going towards 11. Mind you, these are if they are stopped.)
12 o'clock: Nezumi (Rat)
1 o'clock: O-ushi(Ox)
2 o'clock: Tora (Tiger)
3 o'clock: Usagi (Hare)
4 o'clock: Ryu (Dragon)
5 o'clock: Hebi (Serpent)
6 o'clock: Uma (Horse)
7 o'clock: O-hitsuji (Ram)
8 o'clock: Saru (Monkey)
9 o'clock: Tori (Bird)
10 o'clock: Inu (Dog)
11 o'clock: Ousu-buta (Boar)
The symbols glowed blue, white, red, yellow, orange, violet and slowly shifted to many other colors before slowly circling again and flattened out and stopped as they took up the original position as they landed on the barrier so they were flat as an intense light covered the feild.
Soon as the light lifted, Ryu collapsed from exhaustion on all fours, breathing heavily with a smile on his face as the 12 symbols of the Chinese Zodiac were etched on the ground, in their original position, in front of him on a circle of dirt, a presence of emmense evil coming from it.
"It's....done...." He breathed as he looked up, managing to struggle to his feet.
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday March 9th, 2005
Haraldur rushed backwards, and caught two of the fireballs in his hands, and kicked the other. In an amazing display of soccer/football skill, it went through the portal. The stress of so much energy going through the wrong way, made it explode into nonexistance. The two fireballs he chucked at the fortress, further disturbing the rubble.
"You really must get some variety into your life Draven, otherwise killing is no fun," he said, as one of the descending fireballs burnt a soldier to a crisp. "You are capable of things other than fire, you are wasting yourself, and your enjoyment. What is the satisfaction in killing people if you are going to do the same things every time?"
With a mad, disturbing laugh he brought his hands out to his side, and lifted them up. The ground below cracked, and a mass of water rose up quickly, forming a high cuboid shape mass of water with the battle field as its cross sectional area, engulfing him and Draven, before running away and causing severe flooding and landslides for days.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday March 9th, 2005
//Hah, I guess you got a point there Eon. It's me who has the warped mind! <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wacko.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wacko.gif' /> //
"Yes, Kami-Ryu....it is done....or is it?" Duilin sighed...he floated down to the ground and stood between Ryu and Nevina. Rink then walked next to Duilin, he looked down at his little Imp friend. "Nice work you did with the castle..."
He then turned around and spoted Haraldur causeing the huge blast of water. "What the devil is he doing!?" He then ran abit closer to the two.
"Duilin!" Rink cried as his friend ran...
Posted by: CyberWolf on Thursday March 10th, 2005
Armic was stricken with fear, but Qor reassured him...
"You know as well as I do, Zeros', a spell only lasts as long as the Caster's life... And for you... I predict a very short life..." Qor said, as he feinted a frontal attack at Zeros' stomach, he phased, but left an image of himself charging at his opponent, the real Armic had gone behind him, spat upon his tainted blade, and thrust it into Zeros' back, or at least, where Zeros should be, if he chose not to be ran through by the "ghost".
//Have both of my Demon Flesh golems been killed? I know Duilin killed one of them...//
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Nevina smiled in Satisfaction as the Necrodragon exploded into dust, but jumped as she heard the roar of another one approaching.
Nevina knew she coul close the portal, and possibly damage the Underworld... but she would have to do it from within...
She rushed INto the rift, and began her journey through Hell itself...
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday March 10th, 2005
"Ah, yes, we wouldn't want you to get board now, would we?"
The two fireballs Haraldur threw at the fortress changed direction, after the encounter with one of the soldiers.
As the water rushed at him from below, Draven thrust his left hand straight down. A violent shock of superheated air met the water before it could come close to the madman, instantly evaporating the majority of it. A thick white steam engulfed the battlefield and surrounding sky, reducing visibility to a mere few feet, especially around Haraldur and Draven.
"Variety... Jack of all trades, yet master of none?"
Draven snapped his fingers and the two surviving fireballs, now one on each side of Haraldur, exploded into twelve long sphere shaped flames each, which blasted upon the bitter one from the left and right. At the same time, Draven lifted his crimson blade and made a mad dash through the thick steam at his opponent...
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The remains of the fallen Necrodragon began to stir... Suddenly, the lower half sat up and began to clumsily make its way towards Duilin and the others. As spray from the water attack began to rain down, bits of severed bone began to float in air, moving toward the lower half and reuniting with it...
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The tear in space began to shrink behind Ryu's seal, but the second Necrodragon appeared behind it. Neglecting to notice Nevina, the massive abomination roared and clawed at the seal like a caged animal...
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday March 10th, 2005
//Both golems are dead Cyberwolf.\\
"Ah yes, I know that, but it matters not as I can survive for several hundred centuries because of both elements of my being. Also, I had toyed with the spell and found I can anchor it to other being's if I desire..." He replied calmly as Armic sped at him.
Zeros' sensed the attack and flared his right hand with demonic and god ki, making his hand become enveloped in a swirl of midnight black and glowing pure white ki and caught the sword behind his back as he parried the attack of the 'ghost' Armic. He held on fast as he reared his hand back and threw Armic with all his might towards the edge of he barrier, which reached down towards and into the ground.
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Ryu sighed as the seal held the barrier together. He also noticed the lower half of the other Necrodragon glowing faintly. Ryu stood shakily, both hands on his knees and pointed towards the Necrodragon.
"Look!" He yelled as he pointed towards the lower half. "It's still alive, if barely."
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday March 10th, 2005
//Cyber Wolf, Ryu allready closed the barrier. Sheesh, read posts <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /> //
Duilin eye's widened as the Necrodragon rose back up "Now you have got to be shitting me!"
Duilin then charged a fire ball in one hand and an energy ball in the other. He trusted both hands toward the Necrodragon and the balls flew at the monster. Hitting it front legs (It's on all fours right?) causeing it to slump slighty down on the ground, to buy them some time...
Rink slowly backed up, he blasted a few fire blasts at the Necrodragon, but it had basically no effect on it. "Dang, I won't be much help here..." He flew up 6.5 feet into the air "But, I'll do what I can..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday March 11th, 2005
//Actually I meant the portal that the other Necrodragon was coming out of.\\
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday March 11th, 2005
Haraldur said: "Not necessarily."
He teleported to be a few mtres behind draven, and then moved further away in that direction.
//Short range ones are OK, I understand.//
Haraldur told Zeros', Ryu and Duilin: We must go! This battle is unimportant and only wastes time. We have the fifth weapon, there is nothing else here of interest. As I said, we can find the sixth when we have all five. We must go! Zeros', your petty squabble is unimportant at this time, we must go, and take the weapons with us! The weapons are currently the most important. We must go! I repeat: we must go! We must go! NOW!
Haraldur started slowly accelerating southwards. All the weapons glowed with urgency.
Posted by: CyberWolf on Friday March 11th, 2005
//They should all be coming out the same rift... And anyways, the Necrodragon was still squeezing through at this point. Which in turn, gives Nevina just enough space to squeeze through the rift and into Hell. I'm reading. <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />//
Sliding back, but not falling into the barrier, Armic said grimly,"You sir, need a new hobby."
He blasted a red beam of light at his barrier, forming a small hole. The barrier began to rebuild, closing the hole, but it was still just big enough of a breach...
Qor knew Nevina had treaded into his terratory, and it all worked into his plan of Armeddaggon...
"Either way, good luck binding me to a plane of existance that, soon, will cease to exist..." Qor said delightfully, as he warped from the Building, through the Barrier Breach, back into his Underworld home, awaiting Nevina...
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Nevina flew through the 9th level of hell, severing suprised Deamons from their limbs as she went along.
She had to get to Limbo, the very first level of hell, and sever the ties between Midgard and the Underworld. This would force Qor out of Armic, and send all rightfully bound demons back into Hell, permenantly, and make it impossible for Mortals to journey to Hell, in life or the afterlife. This would make Nevina a saviour...
But little did she know, Qor was right behind her, with a completely different scheme in mind...
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday March 11th, 2005
I'm coming He replied as he pazed out of the dispelling barrier and appeared next to Ryu, picking him up in a fireman's carry and forming a barrier around himself to protect him from wind resistance and followed Haraldur southward.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday March 11th, 2005
Duilin resived the message. We can't go...Nevina, she's down in Hell...
Duilin looked at the portal and then to the south and then back at the portal.
"I've got to go in after her! She might not make it!" He cried as he slowly ran to the portal.
Rink grabed him, but it didn't seem to slow Duilin down. "Don't do it man! You could get really hurt! Belive me! They don't serve well to outsiders! Your only half demon! You'll only make things worse!"
Duilin slowed down "But I can't just leave her!"
"Duilin! Yes you can! She can take care of herself! Listen, the guys really need you, they can't afford to loose you! You're the weilder of the Mace!"
"But..."
"Duilin, I know I haven't known you for very long, but something tells me that your needed here. You'll have another chance to help her, the Portal needs to be closed! If to many people go in it will endanger her mission! Wouldn't she have asked for help if she needed it!?"
"I...I guess your right..." Duilin noded. "Now, let's get out of here!" He runs off to tress, were Ellena was hideing. "We have to go! Now!" He picks up Ellena and then begins to run off and jumps into the air, speads out his wings and then flies off following Haraldur. Rink, grabs onto Duilin's shoulders and spreads his wings out, makeing a double flight like thing...
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday March 11th, 2005
Haraldur flew southwards at lightning speed, towards laus, dodging the stationary invisible barriers with ease, as if he could sense them.
Posted by: Trent on Friday March 11th, 2005
Zion watched his companions leave. He decided to stay back and deal with that which remained.
Xenai broke an elixir over Tsu's head, and it somehow healed him. He came to consciousness, and stood up.
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EW --- 3
ZW --- 3
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday March 11th, 2005
"We gotta get out here! Fast!" Rink says
"Well I can't do the fire boost, it'll burn the girl!" Duilin replies
"Good point, try and think of something, you've taught yourself all your demon skills. I'll help, we might not be able to go as fast as before, but preety, close, contain the energy.."
Duilin noded, his eyes began to glow a complete bright yellow. He then zoomed off, at great speed, Rink grabed on, tight, so he wouldn't fall, he help Duilin go faster, by aiding his flight....
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"Soilders...let's go back out!" Maxwell yelled
Maxwell slowly walked out into the battle feild. With only half the people left. The soilders began to march out again. Several ones with cross bows pointed at Zion, Tsu and Xenai. "Surrender!" One called
Maxwell stood a few feet away from Draven. "They ran away, didn't they? Should we kill the ones remaining, or capture them?" He asked Draven
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday March 11th, 2005
Floating near the ground, Draven smirked at Maxwell, replying very plainly:
"Kill them."
He flew straight up into the air, and with a explosion of his aura, shot southward after Haraldur. He dispersed his crimson blade as he flew, bringing his arms to his sides.
"Another tactical retreat? Oh, dear... Not this time..."
His cape flowed as he shot through the sky, unfurling like the wings of a dragon...
Far ahead, another speck in the sky was visible tailing Haraldur. It was Zeros' carrying Kami-Ryu. Now where is everyone off to in such a rush?
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(Actually, it's just the bottom half right now-- just two giant skeleton legs walking around. Heh...)
The half Necrodragon began rampaging wildly, which happened to be in the direction of Zion and co. and Maxwell and his soldiers. Bits of bone flew to it, partially reforming its spine and a few ribs...
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday March 11th, 2005
Maxwell, gave the signal to the soilders to fire there cross bows. But suddenly the half Necrodragon headed toward them.
"Kill that! Kill that!" Maxwell ordered. Bolts then began to bounch off the Necrodragon, doing no damge. "Damnit! Geez, I must be crazy..." Maxwell then used his Superhumen like strength to lift up a large piece of ruble from the castle. He tossed it at the Necrodragon, knocking off a bone. "Hah! How do like that skinny!" He laughed. "Soilders! Get man the cannons!"
"The cannon are gone sir!" One soilder cried
"Then get the tanks or get anything that goes 'Boom', butter knifes won't work on this thing! And you guys with the bows, make sure those three don't get away! Shock Troops, you might be helpfull, shoot the dragon! I'll go find Armic!"
Maxwell then began his way to Armic's position...
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday March 11th, 2005
Zeros' sensed Draven's aura as he put on a sudden burst of speed, dodging across the same barriers Haraldur had sensed and meeting up with him in seconds.
Draven's coming. He told all his companions quite plainly.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday March 12th, 2005
"Rink...Draven's on his way..." Duilin says softly. He had Zeros' and Haraldur in his view, yet he was quite far behind him. "I don't what to do. Ellena seems to not be moveing, I'm sure she's alive. The Prophet said that if she dies, then something bad will happen. The Light is the only one who can calm, The Bitter One...if only I could catch up to him. Rink we need to speed up. You, keep the energy withen for a change! You, use the force, my young aprentice!"
Rink noded and then spread his wings further, he began to glow with fire, and they began to rocket off, catching up closer to the the others...
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday March 12th, 2005
Draven folded his arms as he flew. There was someone else joining them now... Duilin, perhaps? Carrying someone... and some little imp thing...?
Draven weaved around magical disturbances in the sky, as was common above the wasteland area they were now above. He flew a bit higher, so he could see the group better from afar. For now, we'll just see what they're up to...
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The Necrodragon remains began thrashing up and down, sending boulders and rubble from the ground into the air. It's left claw had regenerated, which it used to make a violent slash at both the attacking soldiers and Zion and co. behind...
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday March 12th, 2005
The slash killed two Shock Troops, the cut went right threw their armor.
"It's claw's regenerateing!" Cried one soilder
"It's going to fully grow back, what are we gonna do!?"
4 Cart Tanks came there way and stoped 46 feet away from the Necrodragon, they fired there cannon at monster.
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Maxwell arived near Armic's position.
"Armic! This giant Skeleton came threw the Hell Portal! We need your aid!"
Posted by: Trent on Saturday March 12th, 2005
"You guys really suck," said Zion to Maxwell's soldiers. He turned around with Xenai and Tsu to face the reforming Necrodragon.
Zion charged up a beam of pure light energy. It'd surely be good enough to take it down...
Xenai and Tsu went the front line. Tsu hacked away uselessly, though Xenai's hits started to send cracks into the dragon.
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EW -- 2
ZW -- 2
Posted by: CyberWolf on Saturday March 12th, 2005
//Uhh... Armics in Hell, silently trailing behind Nevina//
Nevina ascended into the 8th layer of hell, bashing the minotaurs guarding the boiling lava pits, parrying the arrows they fired with her sword. She sent down one large ball of holy energy, buring the skin off a few dozen of them, and their remains fell into the pits, as the Sinners souls began to attack them.
She ran into a tower, seeming to spiral into the Black and red sky of coal. Entering the tower, she flew along the spiral stair case, and after a good 5 minute flight, arrived at the top, giving her access to the 7th layer of the Damned World.
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Armic followed silently behind her, completely invisible.
"You my dear, will be my Martyr!" He whispered to himself sinisterly.
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday March 13th, 2005
Somewhere beneath the rubble, the decapitated skull of the skeletal monster began its ghastly roar. It burst through the pile of stone, surrounded by rotating orbs of darkness, and began flying towards its body to reunite. (Heh...)
The partially reformed body, stumbling, swung its claw at Tsu.
Posted by: Trent on Sunday March 13th, 2005
Xenai leaped back behind Zion.
Tsu dove to the side, rolling away from the claw, and a safe distance from what Zion was about to do.
He let out his loudest, most powerful kiai as he fired the light energy beam. With the kiai, the beam had grown big enough to engulf the entire Necrodragon. The beam itself wasn't all that strong, it was just widespread light energy. But from the darkness the dragon radiated, Zion knew that it had a weakness to light. Hopefully, the beam would shoot through to the head. But there was no guarantee that it would.
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EW - 1
ZW - 1
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday March 13th, 2005
//Oh, I misunderstood the post, I tought Quor was following him, cause of like spirt crap and stuff//
Maxwell searched the room. "Armic?"
He wasn't there....
"Damnit, he left to..." He turned around and rubed his forehead. "That hell spawn will kill us all...." He then walked out, and went onto an over view wall, and watched the Necrodragon rebuilding itself, killing soilders, and fighting Zion, Xenai and Tsu. "Let's see...If the monster kills the trio, then that means battle will be victorius! But the monster will still be there...But what if the trio kills the monster....then I'll be stuck fighting them. And my soilders don't seem to be very usefull at all, not at all! And I can't fight them all by myself..."
Maxwell, paced around. He didn't want to loose fighting, he was a general, and had seen many battles. He also needed to avenge his brother.
"Damn, I wish Lord Draven was here!"
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday March 14th, 2005
Haraldur arrived in Laus, and went to Duilin's house, and waited for the others.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday March 14th, 2005
Duilin just continued flying "Rink, were almost at Laus. We shall wait for Draven there, he's all alone, now!"
They speed up and then land at Laus. Rink jumps to the ground.
"Were to?" Rink asks
"I think he's at my place...Let's go." Duilin replies. He then heads his way to his house...
Posted by: CyberWolf on Monday March 14th, 2005
Nevina decided to try to phase from one level of hell to another. It would be a difficult manuever, but due to the vast, baren landscape surrounding her, she decided it would be by far the quickest way.
She drew energy from the still air about her, and began to fuse it with her own. Soon she became translucent, and finally dissappeared.
The plane warped. she had no idea where she would end up. Plasma Masses surrounded her, blinded and disoriented her. She finally reassimilated in the 6th level of Hell, the realm of Heretics and Blasphemers, The City of Dis...
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday March 14th, 2005
Zeros' immedaitely disengaged his flying and dropped to the ground, setting Ryu down on his feet as he sighed in relief.
"I may not mind flying...but I'll never get used to flying at super sonic speed's..." He mumbled as Zeros' chuckled as they walked into Duilins house with Haraldur.
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday March 14th, 2005
"Gyeh? What are they doing, lounging in some cabin?"
High above, Draven watched them from afar as they entered Duilin's house.
"Bah! They know I'm watching, so they changed course. Lousy wretches..."
Draven considered vaporizing the little hamlet with a single blast out of spite, but he knew in truth he was still outnumbered, and the battle would just be a pain...
Draven dispersed his aura so he would not be detected, and fell several hundred feet, landing gracefully in some bushes. He folded his arms and leaned on a tree in the shadows. Now what is the great destroyer of nations and the winged one doing in such a pathetic shack?
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The blast of light engulfed the Necrodragon completely, the floating head roaring as it gazed into the blinding white-ness. In a few seconds, the monster began to disintegrate, turning into tiny particles that blew away in the wind...
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday March 15th, 2005
"Glad you could stop by guys..." Duilin says as he enters the house.
He places Ellena on one of the beds. "Guys, Nevina went into the portal...she going to close it...she might not make it out..."
He then walked over to the fire place and shot a ball of fire into it, starting a fire.
"Haraldur, do you know that women?" He says as he points to Ellena "I belive she's the one called "The Light", has some connection to the *ahem* "Bitter One". I'm abit confused about all of it."
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"Gah!" Maxwell says as the Necrodragon was blown away "Imposible!" He then shouts, "KILL THEM! KILL ALL OF THEM!"
Tons of soilders then begin running at Zion, Tsu and Xenai.
"I will NOT loose this castle to three...magic barring baboons!" Maxwell sneers, as he reloads his weapon. He watches the battle from the tower.
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday March 15th, 2005
Haraldur saw that all five weapons were in the house.
"Give me your weapons, please, Duilin, Zeros' and Kami-Ryu. We have five, and with them, I can locate the other, I will show you."
He placed the axe on the floor near him, a bit north of him. North of him but south of the axe he placed the staff.
"Zeros', give me the sword, for it will be the compass needle. Duilin, put your mace on the eastern side of the circle. Ryu, please put the spear on the west side."
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday March 15th, 2005
Duilin placed the mace at the eastern side, as he was told. He then turns and looks at Rink. "Rink, go sit by the girl, and wait untill she wakes up."
"Will do!" Rink noded, and he then glided over to the bed beside the one Ellena was on and sat down.
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday March 15th, 2005
Ryu reached behind his back and instantly black tendrils appeared as te spear materialized, Ryu placing it at the western point. Zeros' looked around and sighed.
"Ok...if anyone is squimish, I suggest they cover their ears and close their eyes..." Zeros' said as he flexed his right hand. Without his trench coat or undershirt on, his bare, scarred chest was exposed to the world. He reached behind his back with his right hand, directly inbetween the joints of his eight wings and directly where the main vertibre of his spine stood.
Zeros' looked grim as he plundged his hand into his flesh and grasped the indention-sword hilt under his skin, blood leaking down his back and fingertips as he gritted his teeth and yanked out. He gave a small, almost unaudiable gasp of pain as the sword teared through his flesh, blood flying everywhere as massive amounts of it flowed down his back and spine, the muscle and bone showing easily.
He showed them the bright, gleaming sword as he placed it in the middle of the other weapons as he made a trail of blood follow his footsteps. Luckily, with Zeros' demon and god powers, the flesh was already reforming, slowly, but left him with fresh skin, but the scar in the shape of Iduran's sword was quite visible, even under all the blood that he lost.
He licked his bloodied hand clean as he smiled at the occupaints.
"Luckily the sword didn't have time for the magic to engrave itself into my system or the sword would of been alot harder to pull out." He said pointed towards his back with his now, slightly cleaner right hand, which only had bits of his flesh and blood while his back was still soaking, including his pants. "And don't worry about scars..." He said to them. "I wear them proudly. They remind me of all I've done. All my falures or all my accomplishments."
Posted by: CyberWolf on Tuesday March 15th, 2005
Nevina treaded softly through the City of Dis, surrounded by hordes of zombish souls, starring at her in awe. They had not seen a living one for milenias. As they brgan to constrict her, standing in her way, she set her blade ablaze with a Holy Aura. All the souls backed up. She walkeddown the coal black streets, starring at the steely gray sky, and the red hued clouds.
She was forced to walk/run, flying would attract the attention of the "Enforcers", Angry Pigfaced men armed with Bows, who ran particially naked on horseback.
Approaching the town square, Many enforcers stood, guarding the Portal to the 5th Level. Nevina prepared for a fight... But Qor saw this ahead of time. He set off a massive explosion in the Eastern District, and the Enforcers galloped away from the Portal, allowing Nevina passage as she stepped into the purple ambience.
"She has to make it to Limbo..." Qor said brashly. "She'll have plenty of time to die then..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday March 15th, 2005
Haraldur wiped a bit of blood off his face, just a little, and left the rest, and tasted it. He smiled quietly.
He spread out his arms, and the five weapons floated in the air, the sunlight from the door gleaming off their clean metal blades and points and shafts. The sword rose slightly above the rest, and started to spin slowly. It accelerated, so it was spinning at huge speed, so that a whorlwind appeared above it. Then it stopped, instantaneously, so its deceleration was infinite. The blast was significant, blowing a small hole in the floor.
The sword was pointing straight downwards.
"Ah... yes... I should have expected something like that," said Haraldur.
The weapons rushed in and melded with him, and he jumped down the hole.
He was falling... falling. Not an end in sight. The light above him soon becoming just a speck. It would be soon...
Follow. Everyone in the party heard this, but more echoed than usual, as if the tunnel had some effect.
Posted by: Trent on Tuesday March 15th, 2005
The trio set their attention to the oncoming horde of soldiers, and took them on headstrong. Zion and Xenai had little trouble fighting the soldiers, but Tsu had a little more trouble.
"Should we summon our weapons?" asked Zion.
"Nah," said Xenai, just as the weapons became ready. "We need to save them for bigger threats."
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday March 15th, 2005
Draven had stealthily made his way to the window of the cabin, constricting his energy level as much as possible. He peeked in as Zeros' was removing the blade he once sought after. It seemed so long ago...
"I'll be... So that's where... after all this time... blasting..."
He watched with interest as the hole formed and Haraldur jumped in, ducking his head before anyone would turn and see him...
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(Some time ago...)
The brutish Jayce replied,
"But what use do we have with 'magic' weapons? We have more than enough power to..."
The Dark Emperor cut him off sternly,
"They are not 'magic' weapons. Why I require them is none of your concern."
He turned, his black cape flowing.
"It is only a matter of time before someone manages to reunite them. If done improperly... if someone other than me does it... we'll have an issue to deal with..."
Jayce bowed his head.
"Yes, Father..."
He walked away.
"Oh, my. Bickering with your father again?" Draven smirked from behind.
"Silence, cur!"
"That's enough!" Neptra folded her arms.
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday March 15th, 2005
Both Zeros' and Ryu exchanged looks before jumping into the hole Haraldur disappeared into.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday March 15th, 2005
Duilin grimanced as Zeros' ripped out the sword. He couldn't bare to watch, he haden't seen something the gross since the zombies at his old village. "I needed to redecorate anyway..." He groaned. As he turned, he thought he spoted something duck outside the window. Can't be Draven....I'd be able to sence him...
As the portal opened, He turned around. "Rink, stay here, and take care of the house...and....clean up a little." He then jumped into steped into the portal following Zeros' and Ryu.
"Watch the house Cinderelly! Clean the floor Cinderelly! Kill the Necrodragon Cinderelly!" Rink sneered as Duilin exited. He then opened his mouth but kept his teeth shut, and rubed them, makeing a squeeky sound. "Hmm...my teeth are getting dirty. The mortal world sucks..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday March 16th, 2005
Above him, and above Duilin and Ryu and Zeros', the hole collapsed, becoming blocked off at the top, and the collapse was at the same speed as Haraldur was falling: once the tunnel got too far away from him and was also above him, it collapsed.
There was a blue glow appearing from far down...
Posted by: Trent on Wednesday March 16th, 2005
"There are too many of these bastards! It'll take a while to take them all out!" Xenai stabbed one through the chest while kicking one back into two others.
"Sucks for you, because I'm going for the leader." Zion looked to Maxwell while he backfisted a soldier in the face. He then took off toward him.
Tsu looked to Zion, then to the soldiers charging him. "Kuon Kaiten!" He held his sword outwards and commenced to spin around like a top, knocking out every soldier that came near him.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Kahn on Wednesday March 16th, 2005
Kahn looked in the direction of Laus.
"They took Ellenna back there."
He started to sprint towards Laus.
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday March 16th, 2005
Zeros' frowned as he looked down.
"Haraldur! What's going on!" Zeros' yelled.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday March 16th, 2005
//Kahn, your character should arive at Laus in about 5 years! TIP: The Dark Empire base, has many boats <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> //
Maxwell, turned his head, and spoted Zion heading toward his way. "Damnit!" He then held his Bolt Riffle in his left hand, and then swiped a sword from a near by corpes. "Come and get me..."
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday March 16th, 2005
"Blast it... Hmmm... Well, obviously I'd be a fool to follow them this far and then turn around..."
Draven broke though the window pane in a single bound, ignoring the imp, and made it though the hole a split second before it closed.
He found himself endlessly falling though darkness, the tunnel rapidly closing above him. Far below were those that jumped in first, barely visible in the blackness...
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday March 16th, 2005
Rink was sleeping when Draven broke in. He opened his eyes and then spoted Draven jump down the split second the portal closed. "Hmm....Now who could have that been..." Rink shurged and then layed back down on the bed.
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday March 16th, 2005
Haraldur dropped into the bubble of blue at the bottom of the shaft, which closed around him. It would cut him off for a few minutes, enough time for him to do what was needed to be done...
His companions would, unfortunately have a bad landing, but they should just bounce off with few ill effects.
In the centre of the bubble, the last weapon hung in the air.
He took it. He had waited for this day, so long...
He held the six weapons, three in each hand, each of the weapons as sharp and unbreakable as to be indestructable, and drove them point first into the floor. They shattered.
The pieces shattered, and those pieces shattered.
Those tiny miniscule pieces all rushed into Haraldur. He shouted out loud: "Goodbye."
Then he screamed. The scream rose through the tunnel, echoing through it, and causing rocks from the top to fall. It woke Ellenna, who hid under a bed.
The pain was unbelievable. He was ripping apart from the inside. Then... nothing. There was noone there.
There was a rumble from the ground, similar in sound to the earlier scream. The rock shook.
An image of the great prophet appeared, the sight of runes quite visible: he had been rushed. He was sweating.
"Oh, shit. We are in trouble now..."
Far above, Ellenna wimpered in pain.
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday March 17th, 2005
Zeros' crouched and rolled with it, bouncing off the shield as he sprung out of his crouch and landed smoothly. Ryu also crouched, but didn't have time enough to roll with it and bounced painfully and finally landed on his feet, wincing slightly.
Zeros' looked at prophet and rested his left hand on hi katana and folded all eight wings behind him and tensed his muscles. Similiarly, Ryu sent into a basic kenpo stance, his magical red eye swirling wildly.
"What's going on?" Zeros' inquired from the Prophet.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday March 17th, 2005
Duilin, spread out his wings bonched of the sheild after Ryu, and then landed on the ground, with minimal pain. He shook his head rapidly.
"Were are we?" Duilin asked, Haraldur.
Posted by: Kahn on Thursday March 17th, 2005
//Thanks for the tip!//
Kahn came to a stop and began looking around.
"Where am I anyway?"
He noticed a small boat. "It's been a while since I've been on the water." He snuck in to it and pushed off.
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday March 18th, 2005
Draven fell from above, but began levitating at the last second so that he would not hit the blue shield. His cape flowed in the air as his decent halted. He was now in plain view of the others, floating slightly above the blue bubble.
"Fools! You don't have the slightest clue what you just helped him accomplish, do you?!"
Draven clenched his fist and looked downwards, scowling, squinting to try to see through the translucent shield...
It was that second aura... energy not Haraldur or Ragnar's... or the weapons'... it was invisible, but its presence seemed everywhere...
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday March 18th, 2005
The Great Prphet said: "It is difficult to explain. You could describe The Bitter One as a force of nature, but that is not accurate, not precise enough.
"What has just happened is that The Bitter One has finally got nine of his parts to him, and fused with them. However, he did not realise that his personal mission for himself would still not be complete.
"And it is for you to hope that he never will be complete... because him being complete entails the world's destruction... unless he finds a way around that. The world may not actually be destroyed, but he will have to do something to it to become complete... What, I do not know.
"He has just experienced extreme pain, pain from being torn up and having had his particles turned inside out and then outside out again. And he has realised that he is not finished. I must say this, but he is understandably angry. Which explains the strange aura coming from here. It is his anger, mixed with what else he now trys to capture which is part of him. We are merely at one of the focuses of the force which remains unattached to The Bitter One."
A rock fell from above, through the image of The Great Prophet.
"I suggest you leave, quickly..." He disappeared.
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Ellenna lay on the shack floor, pain filling every nerve in her body, her screams deafening.
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday March 18th, 2005
(Obviously, you didn't think I was going to let go of my original intention of the weapons as well. Heh...)
Draven shouted up at the image, shaking his fist.
"Anger? You're tell me that aura is his anger?"
It was getting stronger... it was everywhere...
The prophet vanished before he could finish. Draven flipped his cape in the air.
"Blasted old man! Then why... why does it resemble..."
As the tunnel began to crumble, the dark aura, the feeling intensified... It was a sort of nervous pang, a pang of anxiety and dread that even struck the battle hardened Draven...
"...R... Retan?!"
Draven's eyes darted around the collapsing tunnel, trying to locate the source of the aura... It was indeed similar to Retan... or Jayce maybe... but still, it was different...
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"How kind of you to decide to let me go. Oh, that's right. I stole your memories of me with your inanimant pieces. You didn't have a clue, did you? I knew you'd come around eventually... Myeh heh heh heh..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday March 18th, 2005
"Something is deadly wrong here!" Duilin says. He then closes his eyes, and then reopens them, his eyes begin to glow yellow again. He turns and looks at Ryu and Zeros'. "Should we leave? I don't know what would happen if we did."
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Rink jumps down to Ellena, and trys to confert her. "Miss, Miss Light...Calm yourself! What's wrong, talk to me!?" He darts his head around "Duilin!"
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"Guys..." Duilin says "I sence something, an aura, it's stronger then anything I've senced before..." He turns around and sees Draven. "Draven! What the hell is going on here!" His left arm begins to flow with yellow energy as he clutches his fist.
Posted by: CyberWolf on Friday March 18th, 2005
Nevina observed her surroundings... The River of Styx...
Around her she saw demented souls, drowning in their own defications in the river. The smell was over-whelming, she had to shield her nose as she plunged into the waste-filled river. She quickly sank to the bottom, being weighted by her weaponry, and was sucked into a Whirlpool at the River's bed.
"Ugh... I'm not following her into that!" Armic said to himself. The next 4 layers she's on her own... I trust she'll make it to Limbo..." He said with a smirk, as he warped himself to the 1st level of hell, Limbo.
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday March 18th, 2005
//Just to make this clear: Ellenna has no idea who Haraldur is, no idea she is The Light, no idea that Haraldur is The Bitter One, and has absolutely no idea what is going on!//
Ellenna said: "What? Why are you calling me Miss Light? Why do you people keep mentioning someone called Haraldur and call me his bride? What the hell is going on?"
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The blue bubble at the bottom of the shaft was becoming unstable, streams of blue fire, akin in appearance to solar flares, but blue, flew off, smashing against the tunnel walls, which were also cracking of their own accord. Something was affecting it: The Bitter One was getting closer to acheiving it, as part of himself.
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Out of one of the many volcanoes on VÃkingagarð, Haraldur came roaring up in flame.
He was dazed, confused, angry, violent and dangerous, and intended to spread it around.
Below him was a village, but more like a farmstead with a village attached to it. It was evidently market day, as the streets completely filled to more than capacity with people and animals.
A fireball would not work this time, he needed it to be up close.
He landed quietly, close by to the village, and entered it, his long blond hair and beard sticking out as if a huge static charge was in him. The people around him stared, neither in fear or happiness, but out of surprise. The expression turned into fear soon after, and the atmosphere into one of panic.
Haraldur had punched one of the buildings, which had promptly exploded, frying the family inside, as a fireball came from the fist in mid punch.
Haraldur went around the village leaving destruction in his wake.
Posted by: Trent on Friday March 18th, 2005
//Sorry about being gone so long. Devoted an entire day to doing a project.
Xenai and Tsu continued to play with the soldiers.
Zion pulled his sword up, swinging downwards as he came up on Maxwell.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday March 18th, 2005
Maxwell blocked the sword with his gun. The weapon being made out of the same material as a sword, was undamaged. "You're going to regreat ever comeing here!" Maxwell thrusted his sword at Zion.
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"Hmmm....You don't have a clue what's going on, do you?" Rink sighed "Let me explain...You see, there are these 6 weapons, that contain a unspeakable amount of power. And this person Haraldur, "The Bitter One", who is an okay person, but he is crazy and he's going to hurt alot of people. And, I don't understand it more then you do, but, You, are the only person who can tame him. It may all sound pretty crazy. But hey isn't a Imp talking to you about destiney crazy enough? You are known as The Light, and you are needed to stop The Bitter One!"
Rink then turned his head "Something's going on here..." He creaked open the door "Oh no! It's began allready!" Rink cried "You must do something!" He looked up in the air and cried "Duilin!!"
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday March 19th, 2005
Zeros' clenched his jaw tightly as Ryu started to sweat nervously. Zeros' then relaxed his posture and folded out all eight wings and glided upwards into the air, his hand still resting on his katana. Zeros' calmly cast a levitating spell on Ryu as he floated upwards and level'd out with Zeros' height.
"Well Draven..." Zeros' said slowly, turing towards the man. "Looks like a temorary cease fire is in order. It seems this problem with Haraldur take on more importance then our petty squable..." He sighed as he closed his eyes. "What do you say: truce, temporarly?" Zeros' said, piercing Draven with his emerald eyed stare.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday March 19th, 2005
Ellenna looked at Rink incredulously, and said, "Have you been stealing mushrooms from my pouch? Some of them have odd effects you know..."
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A large flare came from the blue orb, going up the shaft at huge speed, cracking the rocks about it, causing the tunnel to fall in.
The tunnel looked about to collapse.
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Haraldur had killed an entire village, and the souls of the dead looked up at him. He beckoned to them, and they joined with him, silently: no screaming this time.
There was another village in the distance...
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday March 19th, 2005
Draven landed in front of Zeros', folding his arms as the orb flared and boulders began to fall around them.
"Hmph... Very well, winged one..."
A large stone fell near, quaking the ground. Draven brought his arms to his sides as he exploded in crimson flame once more.
"Perhaps it would be best if we resumed this discussion outside..."
Draven shot up the vertical tunnel like a rocket, his flames tailing behind. Seeing the top off the shaft had been closed off, he clenched his right fist as it seemed with crimson energy as he flew.
"HA!"
Thrusting his hand upwards, the blockage blasted away in a fiery explosion, blowing a huge hole in the floor of Duilin's cabin above. Wrapped in flame, Draven shot out of the hole and continued through the roof of Duilin's house, stopping some 100 feet in the air to turn and look at the gaping hole in the house from above.
The foul aura was still at the bottom of the tunnel... Was it... concentrating...?
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday March 19th, 2005
Zeros' grabbed Ryu's hand and shot through the collapsing tunnel at supersonic speeds, barely making the hole and stopping in Duilins house. He sighed in relief as he let Ryu down on the floor.
"That was interesting..." Zeros' murmered to himself.
Posted by: Trent on Saturday March 19th, 2005
"We'll just see about that!" Zion spun out of the sword's path, and brought his leg to the back of Maxwell's head. If Maxwell is at the edge of the tower, he might fall off if he gets hit.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday March 19th, 2005
Duilin flies up following Zeros' and Draven. He looks at the hole in the roof.
"Geez, this will take days to fix!" Duilin groaned.
"Duilin! Haralur will kill us all!" Rink cires as he jumps at Duilin, he clutches to his torso. "Ellena don't belive me. I explained everything! Somebody back me up!"
Duilin grunted, as he swiped at Rink, knocking him off. "We haven't the time for this!" Duilin then opened a chest, and then carefully took out his old Claymore "Time to wake up." He then turns to Zeros' "Do, you think we can trust Draven? What if he pulls something?"
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Zions foot wacks Maxwell in the back of the head. "Ack!" He tumbles and trips of the edge of the wall, he drops his bolt riffle, and grabs the edge of the walls. "Gnnnn!" He lifts himself up with one arm back onto the wall. "I weigh almost 350 lbs, and only 4% of my mass if fat! Let me show you some strengh!" He swings a punch at Zion's chest.
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday March 19th, 2005
Zeros' shakes his head.
"I do not trust him, but I do not believe he will go agianst his word. He is a powerful man. He has done great things - teriable things - but great notheless. Right know, Haraldur is more dangerous then both Armic and Draven if he is currently going insane. I have a feeling that Miss Ellenna is the key to solving this puzzle as the Prophet stated he had eight pieces. That would include himself and Ragnar along with the six weapons." He said resignigly.
"Then the man mentioned Ellenna as the only one who can calm his fury and rage..." Zeros' then turned on Draven. "As I'm sure you noticed, you must of come to a similiar conclusion from my words," Zeros' then gave the meriest of shutters. "I also believe there was an aura similiar to Retan's in the tunnel, correct Draven?" He inqured of the man.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday March 19th, 2005
Rink then looked at Ellena "See I told you!" Rink then crossed his arms "It may sound crazy, but stranger things have happened. People flying around, and giant armys of demons...it's crazy I tells ya!"
"Good for you Rink." Duilin said to Rink. He then rubed his chin "Hmmm, what is the aura in tunnel then? Could it be the great doom power thing or whatever, Draven was telling me about at the pub?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday March 19th, 2005
Ellenna shook her head, and smiled the smile people smile when they are near someone who is having delusions. Then she disappeared.
The Great Prophet appeared, in solid form, and said, "I have taken The Light into safety, and in the meantime I will come with you. I have lived long enough that death holds no fear for me."
He looks at Draven and then pokes him in the chest with his walking stick. "Ah, I see you are also with us, young man. You should calm down... live a little, hehe..."
Posted by: Trent on Saturday March 19th, 2005
"Oof!" Zion took the punch, landing on the tower and staggering back a bit. "You are indeed strong." Zion sheathed his sword and held up his fists, ready for a knock-down drag-out fight.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: CyberWolf on Sunday March 20th, 2005
The whirlpool dropped Nevina in a plane of eternal blackness. She could see nothing, and actually felt as if her vision improved with her eyes shut.
She tried to walk but found herself running into walls and tripping over pebbles. She had reached the 4th level of hell, a labrinyth in a land of eternal darkness. She could see nothing, so she sparked up a bit of light in her hand. The Darkness immediately engulfed it. She tried once again, this time making a huge ball of light around herself. It glowed with the intensity of 50 suns, but it still just did penetrate the dark.
As she opened her eyes, around her she saw hundreds of souls, their eyes wide open like owls, their pupils engulfing almost all of their optical orbs. The souls stared at the light, unseeing, as the eprivation of light had blinded them all. Nevina tried to navigate the labrinyth, but always ran into a dead end. She stood in place for a while, and then noticed the labrinyth was MOVING. Changing its shape, keeping her lost. She levitated, and flew over the labrinyth, saw a red light in the distance, only light within the labrinyth besides her own. It was in the farthest corner of the Labrinyth, and had no ground entrance at all. It was only accessable via aerial landing. She turned out her globe of light and stepped into the light.
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday March 20th, 2005
Maxwell, then ran at Zion, wile holding up his arm, and when he came close enough he swung his fist at Zion's face.
//His musle kinda slows him down, there's a tip <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> //
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday March 20th, 2005
Draven, still burning with flame, landed in the house from the hole above.
"C-CALM DOWN?! You brazen old fool!!!"
He lifted his right arm as if to backhand the old man across the chin, but restrained himself, dispersing his aura of flame in the process.
"Ehrm..."
He folded his arms and turned to Zeros'.
"Yes... there's something down there... something was released when the weapons shattered... Its energy signal is so similar... it must be what Retan was seeking with the weapons."
He stepped to the hole in the floor, which was now caved in and only went down a few yards.
"Hmmm, whatever it was, it appears to be trapped for the moment..."
Still, it was growing stronger...
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday March 20th, 2005
"Young people of today..." murmered The Great prophet.
Posted by: Trent on Sunday March 20th, 2005
Zion tilted to the side, letting the swing go by, then bringing his knee up towards Maxwell's gut.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday March 20th, 2005
No, Haraldur thought, I have taken the edge off my hunger, I need something larger...
He looked towards the nearest forest, and walked to and into it. He roared a roar of challenge, and a strange beast appeared. The beast had no definite shape, whenever you looked at it all you would see would be random parts of different animals and plants stuck together, fur and leaves, in one myriad of forest images. It rushed towards him, now owning a fur covered arm which held a tree branch.
They fought. The beast's arm was cut off by the sword, leaving blood, or sap, everywhere. The beast closed its wound, got another arm with a branch and attacked again. They carried on fighting.
A few minutes later, with the whole area covered in a mixture of blood and sap, the beast ran away. Haraldur pursued, carrying two severed arms, one in each hand, waving them like clubs and trying to hit the beast.
They chased.
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday March 20th, 2005
Zeros' frowned and looked at the tunnel for a moment before glancing upwards.
"Yes...now it seems trapped...but it is growing stronger with each passing minute..." Zeros' said slowly. "What should we do about Haraldur though?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday March 20th, 2005
The beast ran off a cliff, and Haraldur followed, slowing his fall so that he landed softly by the body of the beast, which still was indistinct. The soul was there, staring blankly. He grabbed hold of it, then absorbed it into himself.
Around him, the forest withered and died, leaving the stench of rotting wood and flesh.
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday March 20th, 2005
"I recomend some of us split up." Duilin subjested "Let's see, there's me, Ryu, Zeros', Rink, The Prophet and *ahem* Draven. Three of us should go stop Haraldur and three of us make sure, whatever is in that tunnel, dosen't get out."
Duilin, swung his Claymore in the air. "Unless someone else has a better idea?"
Rink shruged and then looked at the rest.
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Maxwell, grabed his gut as Zion kneed it. "Ooof!" He then, gave an enraged look at Zion. He picked up a crumbled rock from the wall and tossed it at Zion.
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday March 21st, 2005
(Today is DAL's 1 year anniversary! Heh...)
Draven smirked.
"You call him Haraldur, huh? Ah yes, his 'prince' name. I'm guessing you don't know much about who he really is, do you? Of course not. Goody-goodies like you wouldn't have helped him at all if you knew what he does for kicks..."
(Note that Draven never caught the whole fusion thing, and thinks the original Haraldur and Ragnar are and always were the same person.)
"Ragnar is of minor concern. He told me himself the weapons will not grant him additional power. He is a coward who loves chaos and destruction, but only if he is in control. A slippery one, at that. When confronted with a threat of equal or greater power, he will use his magic to distract and flee. Reminds me of a lightning mage I once knew... His spells are mostly wide spread, meaning they are more effective against a group than a single target. Seriously, that haggard beard is rather unbecoming as well..."
He nodded at Zeros'.
"Fly-boy over here and myself together are more than capable of killing him. The rest of you are liable to get killed and should just go home..."
Draven stared at the hole a second before an evil grin crossed his face. He eyed the prophet.
"What were you babbling about earlier? 'The Light'? Is this girl the final piece to the puzzle that he seeks? Let's just kill her..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday March 21st, 2005
//Just to make sure everyone is clear, it was a fusion of three, Haraldur, the Prince, another Haraldur who had his name because his parents like naming their children after kings, and Ragnar, the madman. However, all three were insane, to varying degrees. What we have now, is a more powerful madman.//
The Great Prophet looked upon Draven with unconcealed scorn, and said, "The Bitter One has no knowledge of the girl, and at present that is a good thing. The girl is something totally other, of which I will not go into now.
"Yes, the weapons do not grant him additional power, the was and always was and will be his, they would just drain him whenever they were used, and by their existance. He failed to destroy them, because there are other parts of him he is yet to find for him to be come his complete self. So, he remains at liberty to split up whenever he wishes.
"The reason his spells are usually over a large area is that he likes to see the damage to the surroundings. One of his incarnations once covered the whole of Romme with winter, I believe, causing many innocents to die in the process. We are not dealing with a sane human being."
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday March 21st, 2005
"I see..." Zeros' said quietly. "I agree with Draven though. Even as strong as Haraldur is, he probably couldn't handle either me or Draven alone, let alone us together. As for Haraldur being sane, I agree with the Prophet." Zeros' crossed his arms and closed his eyes while flapping his wings, sighing.
"Now we have a problem as to where Haraldur is..." Zeros' said idly.
Posted by: Trent on Monday March 21st, 2005
"Ow!" His hand came to his head where the rock hit. Now he enraged as well, he snaps a kick up into Maxwell's face.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday March 21st, 2005
As Zion's foot hit Maxwells face, he fell over. He then recovered and then swung his hand at him, if he were to hit, he would grab his oppenet. And he about big enough to lift him.
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"From the start, I knew there was something strange about him, but I thought I was just paranoid." Duilin sighed "Well, yes. You and Draven can fend off against Haraldur, Rink, you didn't happen to see were he went?"
"There was a village, not to far awake." Rink says, as he points to a smokey area in the distance. "He...messed the place up...you guys should start your search there."
"Allright, good. Zeros' maybe you and Draven could start your search there..." Duilin said. "I'll protect the others, if anything comes out of there, or something. Ever since the Necrodragon, I don't trust strange portals leading to random places anymore. I'm getting stronger then I was before."
Rink, gulps and grinds his teeth, he seems to be abit nervous about the entire situation. Ever since he left hell, he has feared his new mortality.
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday March 22nd, 2005
Draven smirked (again).
"Well now, sanity is only a point of view from a certain perspective..."
He turned to Duilin, assuming a much more serious tone.
"I don't know what's down there, but if anything comes out of that hole... kill it immediately... if you can, that is. I don't trust it without the Emperor..."
He jumped straight up, flying out of the hole in the roof and stopping some 30 feet above. There was indeed a faint plume of smoke in the northwestern horizon. He shouted to Zeros':
"Coming?"
A crimson aura engulfed the man once more and he sped off through the sky.
A temporary alliance... that is all. Just as two nations ally to destroy a third, before plotting to destroy each other. Yes, that is all...
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday March 22nd, 2005
To the Southeast, Haraldur saw a faint glow of red. Idiot... he thought, Draven always was ostentatious. I do not want to be entertaining him tonight, he is a bad houseguest. I prefer visiting him.
Bleh...
He rose up, on a level with the faint light in the sky, and sent a fireball towards it, as a warning shot. Then he moved eastwards, at speed.
I can kill a forest, now for the remnant of a continent...
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday March 22nd, 2005
Zeros' let his arms fall to his side and flapped his wings before speeding forwards, catching up with Draven in seconds, following directly besides him. Zeros' smirked as he looked towards the horizion.
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday March 22nd, 2005
Haraldur moved at huge speed, nearing 100 000 000 metres per second, towards the remains of Aritan.
He would be weakened, I might as well start with those who are weak...
Posted by: Trent on Tuesday March 22nd, 2005
The hand made contact. "What the--?"
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday March 23rd, 2005
Draven eyed the fireball as it whizzed past the unlikely duo. A point of light was blasting eastward at incredible speed.
"As I thought, he appears to be fleeing..."
Draven glanced at Zeros'.
"He knows nothing of our alliance. Fly ahead of me and I will pretend to chase you. Follow him as if you have a message or something... Once we get within seeing distance, you and I will begin a mock battle. The fool will likely intervene, thinking that your presence will increase his chances. That is the opportune moment... strike him when his back is turned. If there is anything left, I will hit him from the front. Game over. You lose... Ha ha ha ha!!
"I will admit, you have the speed advantage over me... If he figures us out beforehand, it's up to you to keep him from escaping... Be wary of his teleportation tricks. Just keep him close and I'll nail him..."
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All at once, something burst forth from the collapsed hole-- a great surge of energy... It was completely invisible, but to those who could sense darkness, it looked like a black cloud of evil...
It ran circles around those that remained in the house, weaving through the walls (like a specter, not damaging them) outside, underground and out again, though the air and back down...
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday March 23rd, 2005
Maxwell, lifted up Zion. "Gnnnn!!" He then tossed him off the tower. "Ha hah!"
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"What the heck is going on?" Duilin says "Something is here....my sences aren't very strong...but something, a ghost, is here!"
"I think I can see it..." Rink smirks "It looks like a cloud of...evil!"
"Get it outta here! I don't want that thing flying around!" Duilin says
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday March 23rd, 2005
As he neared the striken continent, he roared a similar roar to the one before, its harmonics bouncing around the boiling seas. A giant beast, looking to be near death rose up out of the water with a dazed expression. Haraldur then collided with it, making it explode into pieces.
The soul followed him, before be absorbed by him.
Far below the waves, the remnants of Aritan degraded into dark mud.
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday March 23rd, 2005
Zeros' glanced at Draven and nodded his head. He concentrated as his wings glowed an ethernal color and he gave them one flap...and disappeared from Draven's sight, breaking the sound barrier several times and heading towards Haraldur at incrediable speed.
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Ryu looked around warily, his magic eyes swirvling around the house as he glanced at Rink and Duilin.
"Rink is right...its a cloud of evil. But you must remember: there is no such thing as pure evil or pure good. Not even demon's are comprised of purely evil intentions, such as gods aren't capable of only pure intentions." Ryu then slowly walked around the house, his red eye following the cloud as it floated.
"We must seal it back into the void. That is our only chance." Ryu spoke expressionlessly, hs face blank and eyes devoid of all emotion.
Posted by: Trent on Wednesday March 23rd, 2005
"Gah! Okay, you win in terms of ring-out!" He shot a wave of energy at the ground and shot back upwards, landing in the tower, and on Maxwell's face. "But the real fight ain't over."
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday March 24th, 2005
"Blast it! Not that... fast!"
Draven's aura exploded in flame and he began to tail the multi winged man. Draven's method of flight-- thrusting his aura outward and behind, was very unnatural, and thus was wreaking havoc on the already scorched wasteland below. He shot out over the ocean next, parting the waves as he flew hundreds of feet above.
Zeros' was a mere speck in the sky ahead of him. Keeping the spirit of the ploy, he shot out a few fireballs in Zeros' direction as they neared their target's location...
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As quickly as it started-- it stopped. Whatever it was... it was now outside... stopped in one place...
Outside the cabin stood a small child... perhaps ten years of age... Nothing in particular stood out about the child except for his white hair. He was draped in black robes. His expression was slightly confused, though not really an expression of fear...
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday March 24th, 2005
Almost completely ignoring the speck which was moving fast towards him, he flew south, again and magnificent speed.
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday March 24th, 2005
//Well, it seems that we are off to see relatives now for a week, but I cannot think of anything to do here, so I suggest that Zeros' gets lost by Haraldur, and they deal with the kid/Retan, because I will not be here for a week.//
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday March 24th, 2005
"When I fight" Maxwell barked "Their are no rules!" He picks up his sword "Raa!" He he runs at Zion and swings his sword at him.
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Duilin then steps outside, and looks at the child. He stares at the child for a little wile. "Who are you?" He asks
Rink steps out, and then spots the child and then takes a slight step backwards.
Posted by: Trent on Thursday March 24th, 2005
Zion unsheathes Eternity Weapon (His sword), and parries the slash, snapping a kick toward Maxwell's gut.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday March 24th, 2005
Zeros' curses under his breath as Haraldur disappears. He grabs the fireballs and launch them backwards, hitting the other fireballs, causing them to explode in midair.
Draven, Haraldur disappeared. We should head back and deal with the evil force. Ryu was too weakened to do another seal. Zeros' says telepathically as he turns around and blasts backwards towards Draven, uprooting trees and causing gaint waves to wake across the land.
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Ryu steps outside also and looks at the child. His magical eyes stops and he narrows his other eye.
"This child...he is the evil." said Ryu.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday March 25th, 2005
Maxwell grabs Zion's foot, and atemps to flip him on the ground.
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"Either that, or he went abit to crazy with the 'goth' look." Rink smirks
"Well if he is...should we get rid of him? Because I'm not really comfertable killing a kid." Duilin says
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday March 25th, 2005
Ryu gazed at Duilin through half-lidded eyes.
"No one is comfortable with killing. That is what makes us human." He indicated himself and Duilin with a hand gesture. "As for pure demons, I have no thought of what emotions they have." He gazed at Rink for a moment before turning towards the boy, his magical eye exploding his senses with evil taint.
Ryu flicked his fingers quickly, causing several kunai to speed towards the young boy.
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday March 25th, 2005
Draven folded his arms as the two blasted past each other at full speed.
"He is a slippery one indeed... Hmph... we'll have to try appraoching him more discretely next time... Yes, that aura is the one that worries me, anyway..."
He banked around and began flying in the other direction, after Zeros'.
As they approached the site from afar, the aura was far stronger than when they had left... Reality seemed to distort around them... they were flying at inhuman speed, but they seemed to not be getting any closer to their destination...
----
The kunai tore through the air and shot right through the child as if he weren't there... nothing...
"You seem frightened... why is that?"
He began to walk towards the group of onlookers...
"I await the command of my Master... Where is my Master...?"
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday March 25th, 2005
"What the hell is that?!" Rink shouts. He cowards away back into the house.
"Ryu, I think the child may be a ghost or an evil spirt of some sort." Duilin says. He then slowly takes a single step toward the boy, he then turns his head slightly "Maybe we should try talking to him." He then turns his head back "Who are you?" He asks
Posted by: Trent on Friday March 25th, 2005
Maxwell flipped Zion backwards, but he landed on his feet, slashing upwards with his sword.
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ZW Ready!
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday March 25th, 2005
Zion's sword cut threw abit of Maxwell's armor, gashing a cut. "Arrg!" Maxwell yelped. "Not that I wasn't going to in the first place, but I'll kill you for that!" Maxwell then trusted his sword at Zion.
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday March 25th, 2005
Zeros' glances warily at Draven and nods to him.
"The spirit is preventing us from progressing. It seems the others have no idea how to deal with this force." He said as he stopped in mid-air. "The spirit of evil is distorting, not allowing us to approach. We have to find another way to progress." Zeros' said towards Draven.
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Ryu looked towards the sky in the direction Zeros' was coming and nodded to himself. He could sense the area around him distorting and bending towards the beings will.
Ryu looked at the small boy through half-lidded eyes. "Child, we have no masters." He then growled slightly and closed his eyes completely. "Dispell the barrier now."
Posted by: Trent on Friday March 25th, 2005
Zion tilts his head to the side, bringing his hand up in front of Maxwell's face, and firing an energy blast at him.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday March 25th, 2005
The energy blast smashed Maxwell in the face. He falls to the ground, wile grabing his face. He then plops down to the ground, his bloody face is revealed as his hands fall. He glares at Zion just before he looses contiousness...
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday March 26th, 2005
Draven landed on the ground, which was begining to shift and move...
"What in blazes...?"
The sky was now red, and the rocky ground attained a similar tint. Far ahead was a point of red light...
"B-Blast it!! That's what Retan was after... If he could control it... so can I!"
He began to hop from shifting rock to rock after the light, not really making any progress...
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The child continued to approach.
"Who? I am my Master's. That is all."
His glance turned to Ryu. There was no more confusion in his face.
"You don't know where my Master is? That is bad. Dispel? Master says not to accept commands from entities other than himself."
He stopped directly in front of Ryu.
"You must help me find my Master.... Master says if I stay away from him too long, bad things will happen..."
Posted by: Trent on Saturday March 26th, 2005
Zion took a bunch of money out of his pocket, dropping it next to Maxwell. "You fought well. You can have that when you wake up."
Zion jumped off of the tower, to see that Xenai and Tsu were done. "We need to find Draven," said Zion. "Zeros' will know where he is. Let's find him."
Zion took off toward the direction of Zeros' ki signal, Xenai and Tsu following him.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday March 26th, 2005
Zeros' glanced at Draven and flew beside him.
"Draven! Don't be foolish! Look what happened to Retan! He wanted ultimate power, he gained death! That is what will happen if you go after it!" He snapped at the crimson man.
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Ryu glanced down at the boy.
"Bad things always happen, child. We cannot prevent things from happening." He stared down at the child. "Your master is not here." He made a gesture with his hand. "He is out there, but seeking him in meaningless.
Posted by: Trent on Saturday March 26th, 2005
Still flying. Just killing off the posts it takes to arrive.
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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday March 26th, 2005
"Ryu, I think his Master might be someone else...." Duilin says, he then looks at the boy. "If your master is who I belive he is, then he may be dead...Can you tell me who he is?" he kneals down, next to the boy, narrows his eyes and folds down his wings.
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Maxwell opened one eye. "Maxwell is a person so....let my Maxwell go...." He groans. "Zion! You be hurtin' me!" He begens to ramble, and thought begin to swarm in his head "Draven! You came back, and brought order! But you brought....fools....rebels....Retan! We need you back! We need you to rule...Darion....my poor 12 fingered brother...killed, by...Duilin! Duilin....I don't even know you! I don't even care....you live...you go ahead and live, your evil, demon life! Demons......Nex? I allways thought he was a demon, he was crazy. Oh yeah, for sure...."
A lutenaut came and walked near him. "Sir...they escaped....but they took alot of our army, we barely have anything left!"
"Really?" He then tilts his head, he is still lyeing on the ground, with blood driping from his face, he spots the money bag. "Ahhrg! This is an insult!" He throws the bag at the lutenant. "You.....you....We are going...south! We must! That's were those, scum sucking no good people are! I want them dead! They have all weapons! Look!" He points to the sky "We are all in deep shit! Draven, is all alone! We need to do something! You, me and a few others, Wyverns! Let's go!" He slowly rises and then begins to limp away...The lutenaut becons a group of 10 soilders to follow.
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday March 27th, 2005
Ryu looked at Duilin with an expression of utmost expressionless.
"We can either assume it is Retan or Haraldur. And before you ask, Zeros' told me tales of his explots in this war."
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday March 27th, 2005
"I assume the same, Ryu..." Duilin said without looking at him. He stood up. "This boy is very strange..." He looks up into the sky "Something is going wrong here, Do you supose this talk about bad things happening if we don't return him to his master is true? It's just if it's Haraldur, we would have the risk of looseing our own lives if getting to him and if it's Retan, well, he's dead..."
Or is he? I never saw him die with my own eyes. I just assumed he did, when the island exploded.
"Well, what if what he means by, 'bad things will happen', is that bad things will happen to those who are bad themselfs. What do you think Ryu?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday March 27th, 2005
Ryu sighed.
"I have no idea. What do you think?"
Posted by: Trent on Sunday March 27th, 2005
The trio caught up to Zeros' and Draven, and looked upon the commotion.
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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday March 27th, 2005
Draven turned to Zeros'.
"Is that really what happened on that island? I know thier kind, and I find that hard to believe..."
He continued attempting to approach the light.
"Ultimate power or not, that thing is wreaking havoc on this dimension. If I don't get it to stop, I won't have a world left to conquor. Blast, if I only knew the spells Retan was casting upon the weapons..."
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The child seemed to grow angry at Ryu...
"Prevent...? All things cause and prevent. You lie. Lying is bad..."
He turned to Duilin.
"Re-tan...? Haral-dur? Are they dragons? My Master is a dragon... a very old one..."
Suddenly, a shockwave burst forth from the child, tearing apart the earth underneath. The ground split, wrecking the foundation of the nearby house. The child began to float in the air...
"I must seek my Master..."
The distortion around the group shifted as he slowly moved upward, allowing those outside the disterbance (Zeros' and Draven) to approach him.
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday March 27th, 2005
Duilin, backed up as the ground began to crack.
"His master is a Dragon? Dragon!"
FLASH BACK
Iduran handed his sheathed blade to Duilin.
"Listen... I have no idea how to release this blade's power... or even if it exists... I thought the wizard we met awhile back might have known something, but apparently not... There's only one more I can think of to consult..."
He sighed, as if trying to decide whether what he was saying was a good idea or not. After a long pause,
"As you may have noticed, there's a mountain in the center of this island. Climb any tree and you will see it. Deep inside sleeps... a fire dragon... he's an intelligent creature, I know, and he's lived for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. If there's anyone who would know about the enchantment of a blade, it would be him..."
FLASH BACK OVER...
"No it can't be! The Dragon would have been killed in MDAA or whatever...." Duilin shook his head rapidly. He looks at Ryu. "I think that this kid is evil, and that bad things will happen to him and his deadly plan, whatever it is, if he is not reunited with his master..."
//I like makeing flashbacks of things that happened during the RP <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> //
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday March 28th, 2005
Zeros' looked over at Draven the instant the distortion allowed them entry.
"Cmon Draven! Let get rid of that...thing!" Zeros' flapped his wings and flew directly towards the child, stopping a few meters near him.
Ryu jumped back with utmost grace and landing a couple meters from where he was once standing, his black cloak billowing up, shining his metal leg. He looked up and saw Zeros' floating near the child.
"Zeros'!" Zeros' looked down at Ryu. "The childs master is a dragon!" And according to Duilin, he said the dragon should of been killed in something called an MDAA!" He shouted up at Zeros'.
Zeros' nodded and turned to the Zion and his party.
"Zion! Right now we have a truce with Draven! He have to get rid of this child first!" He said pointing towards the child. "Anyone have any ideas?" He shouted.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday March 28th, 2005
"Ryu tried blasting it, but it didn't seem to work! It flew right threw the kid like it wasn't there!" Duilin tells Zeros'
Rink slowly walks out of the now, crumbling house. "The others are back? Good....now it is safe...Hopefully."
"It might not be for to long Rink." Duilin says. He then looks at Draven "I don't supose you have any idea how to get rid of this child, do you? You have been serching for the weapons for awile."
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Maxwell and 11 other soilders, rideing on Wyverin fly towards Laus. "They went this way, men! Head toward the darkness in the sky!" Maxwell ordered. He had his bolt riffle back, and straped onto his back, in a specially disigned holster, he also had his new sword, in a holster on his leg. "Faster!"
Posted by: Trent on Monday March 28th, 2005
"Woo, I can feel some strong ki pouring off of him!" Xenai was impressed by what he felt.
"The weapons... Should we bring them out?" Zion looked to Zeros'.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday March 28th, 2005
The child continued rising, his eyes now burning a crimson red. An intense gust of wind circled him.
"Rid? You wish to be rid of me? That is bad. I will ask my master for permission to kill you. My master says not to kill without permission..."
Burning with his crimson aura, Draven burst forth through the gathering spectators. He circled the boy, stopping directly in front of him.
"Child, Retan is gone. However, I am the rightful heir to the Dark Empire, and thus your new master. Come, obey me..."
The child raised an eyebrow at Draven.
"I don't understand... You are all very confusing... My Master cannot die... You are a liar. Liars are bad... All of you... go away! GO AWAY!!"
It was a mere flick of the finger to him. In an instant, the child gathered a tremendous amount of shadow energy before his tiny hand, and sent towards Draven like a laser beam. There was no time to block, let alone move... The energy broke straight through his aura of flame and pierced through Draven's left shoulder.
"Gah--!!"
Draven's aura faded and he fell to the ground like a rock...
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday March 28th, 2005
"What the hell!?" Duilin yelled, walked over to him, and kneeled down. "Draven?" He looked at the kid and then at the others "We can't harm it, but it can harm us....this is NOT good!" He looked at Draven again "Draven? If you're awake, answer me?"
He didn't seem worried, more of an 'Uh Oh' fealing. He didn't have any likeing for Draven one bit, but he had to admit, that he would be a usefull ally.
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Maxwell and the others come closer to Laus....
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday March 28th, 2005
Zeros' flew directly in front of the child and stopped just inches from his face. He stared the little boy directly.
"Child." Zeros' spoke in a deadly calm voice. "If Retan was your master, he is dead." Zeros' said while gathering holy ki in his right hand as it started glowing a pure white, crackling with energy. '"If he was not, he is still alive, more then likely. Everyone dies, no one is immortal." Zeros' voice faded away as his right hand shot out, crackling with holy energy, directly towards the childs head.
Posted by: Trent on Tuesday March 29th, 2005
Zion charged up some light energy, while Xenai charged dark energy, and Tsu charged neutral energy with which to handle the other two.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday March 29th, 2005
Duilin kept knealed down, but he shifted himself into a fighting stance kneal. He held his sword in his right hand, and he had his left hand pointed behind him, he then began to charge his yellow demon energy in his left hand.
Rink noticed everyone prepareing for combat, so he took a few steps backwards. I think I might sit out... He rubed his left shoulder and grinded his teeth, his famous nervous actions.
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Several Wyverns landed about 45 feet away from the group, the wyverns had the soilders and Maxwell on them.
"Let's walk from here...They might spot us, if we fly..." Maxwell ordered. The squad, moved threw the terrian, like a modern day army platoon. "Laus, that's what the town is called. I went there before..."
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday March 29th, 2005
The child dissapeared in an instant as the energy tore through the air where he was...
"A N G R Y . . ."
He was directly behind Zeros'... His teeth were clenched, his left eye twitching...
"M-Master says not to get angry... Must not get angry... Bad things happen when I get angry... Bad.......... bad.... bad......"
A dark aura engulfed the boy. He began to chuckle lightly for no apparent reason...
"He he he he..."
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Draven sat up abruptly, holding his shoulder. He removed his right hand from the wound, gazing at the blood on his glove.
"You... you... you little BRAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!"
He jumped up, exploding in flame. Mounds of dirt and rock flew from the ground aound him.
"KILL HIM!! KILL HIM NOW!!!!"
He braced his good right arm like a cannon and quickly gathered a massive amount of crimson energy before him. In a second, a crimson sphere some 15 feet in diameter was before his arm, which he fired at the boy in the sky with ferocious rage...
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday March 30th, 2005
Zeros' disappeared from his spot and reappeared a few meters away and held his now transformed sword in both hands, having seprated it. He held both blades in his hand, the left one glowing a sickly black while the right one glowed a holy white.
Ryu grimced as he looked at everyone. He hadn't got enough ki, chi or chakra left to to anything useful.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday March 30th, 2005
Duilin, quickly stood up (more of a jump). And thrusted his left hand at the child blasting electricity at him. (Similar to The Emperor’s lightning attack in Star Wars, only yellow)
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"I hear something!" Maxwell called, he then ran, they spotted Draven, with the enemy. "What?!" they noticed them attacking a child. "Hmmm....what is this?" Maxwell shifted his head around, and spotted Zion, he aimed his bolt riffle at him. But the lieutenant grabbed his gun and lowered it "No, sir, I believe Draven has formed an alliance. Perhaps that child is an evil sprit, just look at. I'm sure his' parent's wouldn't allow him to dress like that."
Maxwell gave an angry look at the solider, but then stopped. "That's a good point. I'll promote you to Lieutenant!"
"Sir, I already am Lieutenant." He replied
"Shut up! Or I'll bust you down to Lieutenant, so fast your head will spin!" Maxwell barked back. He then aimed his bolt gun at the boy and fired.
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday March 30th, 2005
All of the attacks slammed into the boy at once, resulting in a massive explosion. The sky clouded in smoke...
Draven began to float, slowly moving up and closer.
"Myeh heh heh..."
Draven's eyes darted back and forth.
"Where...? Blast it! Where?!"
It was... everywhere...
"Free... at last..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday March 31st, 2005
Zeros' returned his swords with a flourish and appeared right beside Draven, throwing him an inquiring glance.
"Draven...what is it?"
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday March 31st, 2005
Draven looked back at Zeros'.
"I'm... not sure..."
The smoke faded... the child was gone...
"Free...? What is he babbling about...?"
A voice was behind them...
"I've managed to escape two prisons in one day. Not bad."
The child appeared older... like a teen now. He no longer wore the innocent look, but now a menacing grin...
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday March 31st, 2005
"My god! What happened?" Duilin says, shocked
"Guys I shall have you know, that I am offically freaked the hell out!" Rink says
Maxwell's jaw droped. The soilders shook seemed to be very frightened "This, is obviously, not going to be very challengeing. But I am a General, and I will NOT give up!" He aims his bolt gun at the teen.
"Don't!" Duilin says "Did, you NOT pay attiention to what happened last time? He might become an adult, and get even stronger!"
"Why should I listen to you? You...you killed my brother! If we didn't need your help, then I would kill you, right now!" Maxwell says enraged
"Shut up!" Rink yells "We have a serious situation!" Rink himself even seem shocked by his out burst of commanding.
Maxwell grunted, and Duilin just stuck his sword into the ground and crossed his arms. He looked at the boy and uncrossed his arms. "Or maybe..." He says, speaking to the group "He is free, there for meaning, we a able to attack him?"
Maxwell shruged, and then aim his gun at him again.
"YET AGIAN!" Duilin added, Maxwell rolled his eyes, and lowered his weapon "It could mean something else..."
Rink raised one eyebrow and looked at Duilin. He shook is head, and then steped back, behind the group, and went back, with the weaker ones. (ie: oracle, soilders, ryu)
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday April 1st, 2005
Zeros' spun around and faced the child in its teenage years.
"I see..." He said rubbing his chin. "So...escaping prisons....which means your power is limited until these prisons come undone..." He said thoughtfully.
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday April 1st, 2005
"Myeh heh heh... There were only two... one for the body, the other for the mind... That 'fool' wanted me to obey his every wish, and placed me under his spell. He manufactured a weak minded spirit for my body... But the spell must be renewed continuously, and thus I have awakened due to it's weakening over time...
"The second was the one despite enough to divide his very being into pieces in order to contain me for eons... Or was it someone else that did it to him? No matter... I shall now reward you all!"
The surroundings began to distort once more as he lifted his arms to his sides. The sky turned red and plates of the ground began to shift.
Still beside Zeros', Draven placed his left arm over his eyes as an intense gust of wind blew from the entity. With his right he began to gather crimson energy just in case.
"Blast...! You wouldn't happen to know how to seal cataclysmic dark entities, would you...?"
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday April 1st, 2005
Duilin cluched his wings, down tight, so the the gust of air, wouldn't have asmuch force agianst him. "Damnit. This is not good. So I supose since he is free from his 'prisions' he will be even more stronger then before!" He sheilded his eyes "That means, he must have unlimited power! How are we going to be able to defeat somebody that powerfull?"
Maxwell, thought of fireing his bolt gun at the teenager, but it was far to windy. "Lord Draven, are you sure sealing, catali...cata-entities is possible?" Maxwell called.
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday April 1st, 2005
Ryu crouched and jumped ontop of a building nearby as the plates in the ground began to move.
Zeros' grimced, but kept steady against the winds despite hovering in the air using all eight of his wings.
"Ryu is more a professional on it then me...as for sealing it, all the spells I know work on demons, I'm not sure about them working on an dark spirit. On technique can seal any entity, but we need a body for it and the use to sacrifice there soul to the Shinigami (God of Death)..." Zeros's said slowly. He glanced back at Ryu and nodded impecibly, seeing him safe.
"We could try and exhuast his energy reserves or try an get someone to seal him, but I don't even know if that would work, if he has an almost unlimited supply of energy. Just using enough can break the seal. Some deamons have enough yokai (demo energy) that they can will themselves back into existance after they get killed, but they become extremely weak for a long period of time."
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 2nd, 2005
"So, what you're syaing is..." Duilin says to Zeros' "Is that one of us has to die, or we need to find a demon, yokai, to revive himself after we do it?"
A few of the soilders look at each other, they seem to be abit consered about the second option.
Maxwell grined "I've got some expendalbe people right here!" He then notices that the soilders ran off, heading back to the wyverns. "Selfish cowards."
Rink did a swift laugh "Hipocrite..."
"Well, the first option seems abit extreme, unless somebody here is willing to give up there life. I think that rules out, Rink, considering how cowardly he is. But if the only demon's here, is Zeros' and I, I don't know if either of us can do that..."
"And obviously, we can't drian his energy!" Rink adds
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday April 2nd, 2005
Before him was the oldest land spirit in the world. His destruction would mean only the continent formerly the Dark Empire would be left, as Retan drove the Earth spirit away long ago...
The Earth spirit was sitting on an island meditating, and blissfully unaware of all else. He was the shape and size of a human, and wore white robes. He felt a hand cover his mouth, and steel cut into his throat.
Haraldur dropped the knife in the seawater as the island sank down into the ocean, at the same time as all continents apart from the dark one.
One more continent to go... then we shall see what happens, he thought, as the Earth spirit's soul entered him.
He flew towards Laus.
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From the harbour of Laus, could be seen the sinking of a nearby island, which was not part of the continent.
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday April 2nd, 2005
"I wasn't suggesting that...I was just considering my options, actually. And I woundn't demand any give there life to kill anyone else..." Zeros' finished. "And about the life sacrificing part, the person who uses the technique give there soul up. They don't actually die, they basically live, going through motions. The technique takes months to learn anyways."
Posted by: Trent on Saturday April 2nd, 2005
"Damnit! Should we blast it, or what?" Xenai grew impatient. The trio was now fully charged, ready to perform New Forever.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday April 2nd, 2005
Haraldur landed at Laus Harbour, and down the street he could see the group. He stood, and watched to see what would happen next.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 2nd, 2005
The group of running soilders, spoted Haraldur.
"It's him!" The lutenaunt yelled. The warriors, not includeing the lutenaunt, ran at him
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"I agree with him!" Maxwell said "I grow werey of this. We should just attack him! What do we have to loose?"
"Our lives! If we attack him, he will just attack us. With his power he could probally kill us all..." Duilin says
"This is bullshit! How do we know it's 'all might and powerfull', it's probally just some stupid trick!" Maxwell enraged, runs past Zeros', Draven and Duilin, and runs at the spirt fireing bolts "Yaaaaaa!!!"
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday April 2nd, 2005
Haraldur threw a ball of energy at the leiutenant and his soldiers, turning them into so much molten slag.
He then walked up towards the group. He hovered a little above the ground, ignoring all except the teenager, and said, "Hello... goodbye."
With two dark knives in his hands, infected with a deadly venom, he stabbed quickly at the boy, at the same time a seismic shock coming from him, at the boy, destroying many of the surrounding buildings.
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday April 2nd, 2005
The entity allowed the knives plunge into his torso... nothing. He merely smirked at Haraldur.
"They talk to much. I you better."
His response was a blurred closeline punch towards the newcomer's face. At the same time, 7 identical images of the boy leapt from his body, all shouting in eerie unison:
"Accept your reward!!"
Three madly blazed toward Zion, Xenai, and Tsu, two more for Duilin and Maxwell, the next for Draven, and the last for Zeros'.
Draven began franticly blocking a flurry of flying shadow elemental orbs sent at him from his clone.
"This is... madness!"
(This guy is a NPC with special rules. I'd like everyone to have a crack at controlling him. The rules are 1. Keep him in character and 2. He's quite invincible in combat. We obviously must think of a different way to beat him. Heh...)
Posted by: Trent on Saturday April 2nd, 2005
"Crap! We can't do it! Split up and take 'em on!" Zion just lumped the energy he charged up onto Tsu. Xenai did the same. The trio flew off in three opposite directions, each entity following their assigned target.
Zion turned to face the entity coming up on him while continuing to fly in the same direction, connecting his wrists, and firing an energy wave at it. The entity simply smacked it away and fired one at Zion that was 5 times stronger. Zion could do nothing but take the hit and hit the ground. "Ugh..."
Xenai turned around and stopped, attempting melee combat against the entity. Every punch and kick was effortlessly blocked. Xenai took out his sword, and slashed at the entity, but it blocked with HIS FINGER. A swift punch to the gut brought Xenai to his knees.
Tsu was trying to come up with a way to fight that thing... He had the light and dark energy, as well as the neutral energy to contain and utilize it. The only way he'd stand a chance against the entity is to use that energy to power up. He spun around, stopping, and let out a thunderous yell.
"New Forever!!!"
The ground underneath him formed a large crater. His hair stood on end now, because of all the energy. He had a quite large aura now, of swirling black and white. He gestured toward the entity to bring it on. "Psh, nice trick. It won't help you." The entity flew at Tsu.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday April 3rd, 2005
Zeros' merely moved with blurring speed, dodging everyone of the entity's attacks. Zeros' blurred with speed, launching punched and kicks at the entity. The entity dodged all the attacks with the same speed.
Both people became a blur as they dance in the air. One of the entity's attacks hit him in the gut, sending him fast towards the ground. Zeros' flipped backwards and landed on his feet as he launched into the air. He grabbed his sword, transforming it and splitting it in two, charging both sword with energy. He launched both attacks, one a sickly black-green, the other a holy white.
Both crescent attacks merged as a now glowing white crescent wave crackling with black energy raged towards the entity. The entity stood there, his arms crossed, an arrogant smirk on his face. The blast his the entity, exploding, sending a shockwave of holy and death energy. The dust cleared and entity still stood, but this time had a small scratch in the middle of his chest. A trickle of ethernal blood made its way down his chest.
The entity stood there with a gobsmacked expression on his face. hHis eyes alight with rage.
"You...You...YOU DARE!?" he shrieked in rage. "DIE!" he launched a barrage of deadly powerful shadow orbs at Zeros' as he dodged around them.
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday April 3rd, 2005
As the entity ran at Duilin, he swung his claymore at it's head. He quickly dodged it, and swung a punch at Duilin. He grabs the entity's fist, and swung him to the ground. Duilin, then stabed his sword down at him. The entity, smirked and then smashed the sword as it came down at him.
"Uh oh..." Duilin groaned, as he backed up.
The entity rose up "Accept your reward!!"
"I'll give you a reward!" Duilin blasted an energy ball at the entity, but he conter attacked with a dark blast, blowing right threw Duilin's attack, knocking him to the ground. "Aww...man..."
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Maxwell, he swung out his sword at the entity. He smilply grabed the blade and bent the weapon. "
"Wah?" Maxwell ghasped. He then swung his gun at the entity's face, knocking him to the ground. He blasted a bolt at him, but the entity, jumped up and punched the bolt, and it fell to the ground. "What the hell!?"
Maxwell swung a punch right smack dab in his face, causeing the entity to move back abit. He then jumped at the Maxwell, and jump kicked him right below his chin, causeing him to lift up his enemy and brake out a tooth. Maxwell fell to the ground, in dizzines.
Posted by: Trent on Sunday April 3rd, 2005
Zion's opponent grabbed his hair, pulling him up, and letting go, having enough time to spin around and put its foot into his gut, sending him flying backwards. "Urgh..." Zion waited for the entity to fly directly above him, and then took out Eternity Weapon, thrusting at the entity's chest. It hit, piercing the chest, drawing a little bit of blood. "You fool..." the entity pointed its hand at Zion's face. "You have no chance."
Xenai tried to get to his feet, but the entity would doublefist him in the head, sending him all the way down to the ground. "Gr..." Xenai sprung forward, in a somersault manner, and planted both of his feet into the entity's face, pushing him down to the ground, and slam! Xenai jumped off of him, snickering. The entity got to its feet, and within a microsecond, had planted his palm into Xenai's face, sending him about 10 feet back, hitting the ground hard.
Tsu glared at the entity, and the entity glared back. A standoff. Tsu spoke first. "Here I come." As he ran toward the entity, 5 times faster than normal, he put dents into the ground. Kuon Yaiba was unsheathed in a battou-jutsu manner, bringing it across the entity's head, causing it to spiral to the ground, but onto its hand, which pushed it off with a kick toward Tsu's face. Tsu dodged the kick, grabbing the entity's leg and spinning around, then throwing it at a nearby tree. The entity landed with its feet on the tree, sending a massive wave of energy at Tsu, that put him on the ground.
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EW Ready!
ZW Ready!
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday April 3rd, 2005
The boy's attacks had no effect on Haraldur, as they went straight through him. He grinned at the boy. He then noticed that the small wound one of his images had suffered healed very quickly, and grinned again.
He said to the world at large: "There is a chance that this being is a relative of mine..." Then to the boy he said, "Hello, brother."
He then sat down and watched what would happen, letting all attacks pass through him.
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday April 3rd, 2005
A punch to the face sent Draven flying downwards into a pile of rubble, which he entered with a bang, and flew out the other end, bouncing and tumbling across the ground. He recovered to he feet, clutching his wounded shoulder.
"Cr... cretin!!"
His firey aura flared. Pressing his palms together, he formed a blade of fire as he always has. At the same time the dark entity clone opened his right palm, a blade of darkness, burning with shadow energy, appeared in his grasp.
"..."
They stared at each other for a brief second before Draven broke lose with a mad dash, the aura that flared behind him ripping the scorched earth apart. The blades rapidly clashed again and again, each time with an explosive shockwave.
The darkened red sky blurred the vision...
Draven managed to send a telepathic message to Zeros' during the freocity of battle.
"Ragnar's here... if we can split him back up into the weapons... I can't possibly think of another way to contain this thing..."
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(*Ahem* You're the only one not getting beat up Haraldur... Heh...)
The dark entity fighting Haraldur scratched his nose.
"You are correct to sense a kindred... I am the result of a spell cast upon blood collected from the most destructive of warriors... The invincible Draken Alpha Retan*... An ancient king of VÃkingagarð..."
The dark entity shifted his plane of existence slightly. It was a trick advanced mages often used to appear in one dimension, but exist in another so that attacks from the dimension they appeared in would not hurt them. Now in the same plane as Haraldur, he began a furious assault of shadow energy...
(*Alpha Retan would be Retan's ancestor.)
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday April 3rd, 2005
"If he was invincible, howcome his blood was shed? Or did he do so himself?"
Haraldur allowed the shadow energy to envelop him, and said, "You have some things to learn about the effect of kindred, my brother, you should know that that will not work."
He split into nine identical copies: Of his nine incarnations. They were all Haraldur/Ragnar shaped, for Ragnar's hair had had its colouration corrected. They surrounded the boy.
"My brother," they said in unison, "You must be the last of the ten, the one which must now be complete is nearly so. All ten brothers, together for what must be done. Surely you know this, or has the captivity affected you worse than the captivities of ourselves? Surely you know what must be done, for our collective destruction, the end of our suffering."
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday April 3rd, 2005
Zeros' dodged the furious asault and agreed with Draven.
Yes...but how can we succedd in doing that? Zeros' asked telepathically through as he dodged the shadow energy from the teenager.
Posted by: Trent on Sunday April 3rd, 2005
The entity fired a blast at Zion, which put him into the ground. The entity threw a punch, which Zion rolled away from. He jumped to his feet, backing slowly away... "Crap, crap! I better summon it, or I'm toast!"
"Eternity Weapon!!!" Zion held his sword up, the gem on the hilt flashing brightly, and very rapidly. Eternity Weapon fell from the sky, landing in front of Zion, roaring at the entity.
Xenai rolled backwards onto his feet, noticing Eternity Weapon. "I guess it won't hurt to pull my ace out too."
"Zero Weapon!!!" Xenai thrusted his sword into the ground, and a pillar of darkness shot up around it, flinging the sword out of the ground, and back into Xenai's hand. Zero Weapon pulled itself out of the ground and roared at the entity.
Tsu jumped to his feet, immediately retaliating with an energy blast of his own, and following up with a furious renzokudan. The entity took the hits, bringing only grunts from it. When Tsu stopped firing, the entity appeared above him, instantly creating a huge energy ball and bringing it down upon Tsu. An explosion.
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Eternity Weapon ------ 3
Zero Weapon ------ 3
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday April 4th, 2005
Duilin, tilted his head up, his vison was slighty blured....He spoted Haraldur, and his copies, he overherd what he had said.
"My god, we should have never trusted him...." Duilin groaned, he then began to get himself back up, the entity clone, pressed his foot down at Duilin's chest, pushing him back into the ground. "Damnit..."
You are weak. It hissed
"I...I am not!" Duilin snaped
The enitity grinned. "Ha ha ha..." He then knelt down, as he swung his fist at Duilin's face. Blood began to draw. Duilin was in to much pain, to cry out. His vision began to blur.
"I...am......not......" Duilin groan. "I am not!" He repeated, more louadly.
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Maxwell, slowly got back up. The enitity, stood there and watched him. It blast a ball of dark energy, at Maxwell. burning threw his armor, knocking him back down onto the ground. Maxwell, then recoverd once again. He picked up a piece of rubble, and threw it at the entity. It did nothing.
"This, is imposible!" Maxwell yelled, he then, lifted up a huge peice of rubble. He then chucked it at the enitity, the rubble smashed into the entity, knocking it the ground, appearing to crush the boy.
"Ha ha ha ha!" Maxwell laughed "Stupid kid..."
Suddenly the enitity, warped behind Maxwell. "Now, my friend, you will die!". Maxwell turned his head, only to see the enitity palm open pointing toward his face. "What the fu-" before he could finish, the enitity blasted dark energy into Maxwells' face, melting it into nothingness....
(So, how many thousand characters have I killed off?)
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday April 4th, 2005
//I think 5 or 6.\\
Ryu eyes narrowed as his magical eyes swivled wildly. He jumped down from the building and landed in front of Duilin and grabbed the entity's arm.
"Well now...WHO is this?" The entity smirked maliciously. Ryu's eyes narrowed as he roughly pushed the entity away from him, making the being stumble, not expecting that.
"You ok, Duilin?" Ryu asked kindly as he ducked under a punch. He reared back and delivered an axe kick, which caught the entity in the chin, lifting him into the air. The entity regained its balance and delivered a hard kick to the back of his knee. Ryu, still off balance, gritted his teeth in pain as the kick connected to the back of his knee, sending him onto his stomach.
He barely rolled out of the way as the entity's kick made a crater in the ground. Ryu raised his right arm and made a slashing motion. A vaccum blade appeared from his hand the sliced through the entity, who phased out of existance. He reappeared behind Ryu, smirking, but a small, almost unnoticable cut appeared in his robes.
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Zeros' dodged widly as the entity went into a frenze of shadow blasts, its moves becoming less percise and missing him by inches, instead of centmeters. Zeros' sheathed his sword and held out his right palm, all the while dodging the entity's attacks. A small ball of pure the same shadow energy with the entity used appeared in his palm. Zeros' clenched his palm into a fist, causing the energy to spark and grow into a wicked blade of darkness that crackled with black energy tendrils.
The blade, which was made out of pure darkness, didn't look like a sword. It was roughly seven feet, but with the energy coursing through it, it flcikered in an out of focus. The entity stopped and smiled evilly, forming a sword of darkness that looked like a sword, not a wicked spike.
The entity rushed forwards with blurring speed and Zeros' countered with the same.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday April 4th, 2005
Duilin, rubed his eyes, and then hopped up, useing his wings, and then landed on his feet. "Thank you Ryu..." Duilin nodded.
The enitity, then glared at the two "It is not wise to continue fighting, demon. It may be fatal!"
"Eat shit, moron!" Duilin yelled, he blasted at fire ball at the entity. The fire smacked the boy in the torso, causeing him to flinch and wobble abit.
The enitity that had just slian Maxwell, shifted his eyes in search of a new target. He spoted Kami-Ryu. He then ran at him, and jumped into the air "DIE!"
"Ryu! Watch out!" Duilin yelled. He then turned back at his oppenent. He then jumped into the air, and then dove down feet first aiming a jump kick at the enitity's torso, knocking him to the ground. The enitity fliped himself back up, and landed on his feet.
"You, just don't give up? Do you?"
"You talk to much!" Duilin, yelled. He then spoted the cut on his robe. Duilin blasted another electro shock at the enitity cut. The boy yelled out in pain as it zaped him. "And die to little..."
Posted by: Trent on Monday April 4th, 2005
Zion jumped up at Eternity Weapon. A flash, then it and Zion were one: Ultima Eternity, as if Zion were wearing Eternity Weapon as armor. "Impressive." The entity leaped at Zion.
Xenai jumped up at Zero Weapon. A flash, then it and Xenai were one: Omega Zero, as if Xenai were wearing Zero Weapon as armor. "Still wanna be cocky with me, asshole?"
Tsu was borderline reverted. The entity's attack had taken a lot out of him. He used the last of his energy to kick the entity into the one that was now attacking Kami-ryu. He reverted and fell down, face first.
=== === ===
Ultima Eternity ---- 2
Omega Zero ---- 2
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday April 4th, 2005
"The blood he shed was his own. He is the one that created me. The one I used to call 'master'. I intend to find him and... return the favor someday. Then we shall see if he truely is 'invincible'..."
He folded his arms as the Haraldur incarnations surrounded him.
"Myeh heh heh... So it is true. One of my parts is part of something greater. How very convenient. Yes, there will be much destruction and suffering... But I shall continue to subsist, for I am the one to cause it!"
He began to shapeshift, taking the form of a gargantuan four winged black and gold dragon...
"Surrender to me and your suffering will swiftly end... I shall absorb you all! Your soul is MINE!!"
A blast of energy began to pull the Haraldur incarnations towards the dark entity, several souls that Haraldur had absorbed himself peeling off and merging with the beast...
----
The dark entity clones lost a little power-- just a little, as the real one became preoccupied with Haraldur...
Draven seized the moment and planted his crimson blade deep into the clone's chest. With a swinging motion he brought the being underneath him and let go of the blade, opened his palms, and let lose a huge orb of flame racing after the entity as it plummeted to the ground. The earth tore appart in flame... Unsatisfied, Draven followed up with an endless barrage of smaller fireballs as he flew higher into the air, the air filling with smoke as he pummeled the fallen being.
He was physically exhausted after a full minute of the attack and panted heavily, clutching his arm, as he waited for the smoke to clear...
"Im... Impossible...!"
Two red eyes glared at him from below...
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday April 5th, 2005
You suffer too, brother. You seem not to realise.
I do not need all those millions of souls I absorbed: I only need them with you. So, whether or not you take those souls from me, it makes no difference.
I think you will find that the merging is very egalitarian: each of the ten parts have equal power, and are of like mind, as are you.
Perhaps you think you are the only one with the power you are displaying. I must demonstrate to you that that is not so. You are the dragon, the only one of us that can do exactly that. We, are other equally powerful things.
The Haraldurs stopped moving towards the dragon, and all of them changed.
The one which had been the sword changed. It became a metal giant, a golem, covered in spikes, and with swords attached to all 4 of its hands. There were spikes on top of its feet.
The one which had been the spear changed. The others moved a little way away. It became a metal golem, covered in long pike-like spikes, going 10 metres in all directions, with spears in both of its hands.
The one which had been the axe changed. It became another metal golem, its skin a system of sharp blades. Its hands were axe heads.
The one which had been the staff changed. It was a slim metal golem, shimmering with magical energy. Its arms could stretch.
The one which had been the mace changed. It was a huge golem, with massive fists.
The last weapon, noone but Haraldur had seen. It had been a halberd. It changed into a metal golem with blades on spikes, and arms like the axe's, but longer.
The one which had been the younger Haraldur changed. He changed into a water demon, 10 metres high.
The one which had been the elder Haraldur changed. He changed into a demon of the air, transparent and huge. Lightning struck from within him.
The one which had been Ragnar changed. He changed into a demon of the earth, with magma flying above him.
All they needed now was the fire. The dragon.
Join us, brother. All your suffering, your servitude, will be over. Unless, you want revenge first, in which case, we will assist. We can feel your suffering, as we can feel eachother's. Come with us and be finally free.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday April 5th, 2005
"Holy shit!" Rink yelled. He was hideing in the remians of Duilin's house. "I can't belive it!" Rink steped, and gleamed at the golems and the dragon. "So, that's what the weapons do..."
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The entity clone laughed at Duilin. Suddenly it seemed to react, to it's losse of power. "Hah. Guy's the clones, are looseing power." Duilin said. He then turned as spoted the golems and the dragon "I guess that's why....Come on guys! We've got to defeat these things!"
The enitity clone, then ran at Duilin, it began to charge up a blast of dark energy. Duilin, then rose his left hand, and charged energy. The enitity clone, tossed the energy at Duilin, but continued running. Duilin, flung his left hand the blast, and tossed the energy at the attack, stopping the blast. As the clone ran at Duilin, he palmed it in the chest and lifted him over himself, and slamed him face first into the ground.
"Weak, huh?" Duilin, smirked, as his enemy laid on the ground.
"Yes..." he responded, and then dove back up and swung a kick at Duilin's torso, knocking him down.
"Damnit...." Duilin groand...
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday April 5th, 2005
Zeros' slashed upwards at the entity as it lost its power. The entity faltered and failed to block the attack. Zeros' seized the chance and began to slash at the being with unrelenting fury. The speed at which he was swinging caused shockwaves from each hit and the air pressure to waft off in waves, shattering nearby houses that were still left standing, causing there roofs and walls to fall off in bits, crumbling under the pressure of Zeros' assult.
Zeros' finished the attack by plunging his sword into the entity's skull and using an axe kick on the beings skull, sending it towards the ground and driving the blade further into its skull. When the being hit the ground, it screamed out in pain as the blade exploded in a flash of shadow and holy energy. Zeros' landed nearby and crossed his arms, smirking.
As the dust cleared, the entity groaned and shakily got to his feet. He came stumbling out, none worse for wear. His robes were hanging on its lanky form in tatters as blood poured out of its gashes, black blood started to pool at its feet.
"Y-Yo...u a-a-are...s-s-s-stron-n-ng..." The entity leaped forwards again as Zeros' disappeared and reappeared in front of the entity, backhanding it in its face and elbowing it in his gut, sending it flying backwards and into a crumbled builidng...
----
Ryu crouched as the entity went flying over his head. He then leaped up and drove both feet in its gut, sending the entity high into the air as Ryu rushed towards Tsu's side, turning him over and inspecting his injuries. Ryu lifted Tsu into his arms and put him into a fireman's carry, dodging the attacks that the entity threw at him.
Ryu gently put Tsu down in a safer area and turned back to the entity and unsheathed his both swords from there invisible sheaths, the sapphire sword in his left hand, the ruby in his right. He slashed upwards with both swords, making twin crescent blades, the left one icy blue and the right one ruby-fire red, both crackling with energy. The entity blocked both energy crescent's, flinging them upwards and slashing a nearby building in two before exploding in a dazzling display of energy.
Ryu charged at the entity, both swords held low as the entity now held a shadow blade of his own.
Posted by: Trent on Tuesday April 5th, 2005
Zion sped toward the entity at lightspeed, grabbing it by the neck, speeding forward, bashing the entity through trees, and then throwing it into the sky. A slow backfip in the air as Eternity Weapon started to glow, and as he came to face in the entity's direction, he unleashed a giant wave of light at the entity, and I mean giant.
The entity glared up at Omega Zero. Xenai snickered, materialzing a gigantic sword in his hands. A downward slash. The entity jumped out of the way and tried to come in from the side, but Xenai was in no way slow with the sword. He spun around, smashing the sword into the entity, and sending it flying. He spun around again, putting an enormous amount of energy into a giant energy ball, of neutral energy. He charged for a few moments as he spun, and when he came back around, the ball was thrown at the entity.
//I don't want to gauge the merged weapons' strength vs. the entities'... I'd rather leave their fates for this one to you, Xorlak.
Tsu laid on the ground, watching Kami-ryu fight for him. "Thank... you..."
=== === ===
Ultima Eternity -- 1
Omega Zero -- 1
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday April 5th, 2005
(You can start killing them off now. Heh...)
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The dragon folded his arms.
"Myeh heh heh... You don't get it, do you? The one you call 'brother'... He is my slave. He longs to be rejoined with you, but his being belongs to me forevermore... Come! Fulfill his and your wish by submitting your life force to me!!"
The force pulling the transformed incarnations toward him increased ten fold...
(Whether he's in denial or telling the truth is up for interpretation. Whether he absorbs or merges, I'll let you (mostly) control what comes out.)
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The dark entity shot out of the smoke, raging at Draven like a rocket. He struck Draven in the chest, cracking his armor, and instantly delivered a double axe-handle to the ex-general's back, swating him out of the sky like a gnat. Draven plummeted down, creating a crater in the earth as he struck...
The dark entity was there before him. He grabbed the choking man by the collar and slowly raised him from the ground as the surroundings burned.
Then Draven snapped...
Grabbing the entity clone with both arms, he flipped him over his shoulder. As the entity flew in the opposite direction, Draven extended both arms in front of him, pulling gargantuan amounts of crimson energy out of nowhere...
"DIE!!!"
A flaming pillar, over twenty feet in diameter followed, completely engulfing the entity and carving a mile long straight path of destruction in the forsaken land...
When he was finished, he stood straight up. His armor was in pieces, his cape tattered, his long hair nearly standing on end from the violent aura of flame surrounding him. He nodded at Zeros' across the battlefield, who had just finished his own clone. He then set his focus on what the real entity was doing with the Haraldur transformations, taking off through the air at them at full speed.
"I don't care how big or how many... I will kill you all!!"
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday April 5th, 2005
//I would have him in denial.//
You are fooling yourself, brother. Your incarceration and suffering has evidently damaged your brain. It will be corrected. You always were the one most likely to be emotionally manipulated. That, also, will be corrected. Come, and be free.
Ignoring the force from the dragon, the nine incarnations started to walk forward, stretching their arms out to grab at the dragon to hold him still.
The incarnation on the opposite side of the circle to Draven, the one which once was Ragnar, saw him. The one in Draven's path, the one which had been the mace, jumped up and then let himself drop, so that unless Draven stopped or dodged, Draven would be squashed by 100 tonnes of metal.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday April 5th, 2005
The enitity clone stood over Duilin. "Heh...You pitfull weakling, I shall destroy you. Demon's shouldn't be so weak."
"I am not weak!" Duilin, coughed.
The enitity shook his head
"Screw you!" Duilin shouted "Screw you, and all your stupid other clones!"
"Big mouth. Time to shut it." The enitity, charged another dark blast.
"I'LL SHUT YOU!" Duilin yelled. He kicked the enitity back, and spung himself up. He then punched the clone in the face several times. The clone woozed in dizziness. Duilin then uppercutted him in the chin, knocking hiim over. Before, the clone could make it to the ground, he blasted electric energy at the clone, but it seemed to be a bit of an orange tint of yellow, rather then, just yellow. The blast, zapped the clone blowing it back. "I'LL SHOW YOU WHO'S WEAK!" Duilin, then jumped into the air, slamming himself down at the clone fists first, with energy and fire flowing threw his body, a huge electirc and fire explotion bursted from the hit, smashing the ground. The clone then shivield up like a prune and then fell into dust, and became no more.
Duilin seemed to have slighty changed. His rage seem to have, made him look slighty more demon like. The horns on his wings, became bigger and darker, and his skin seemed to look more scalely, yet not to noticably.
"Rink....I feal stronger......" Duilin said
FLASH BACK
(When Nex, reveiled to Duilin that he was demon...)
"Oh, Duilin my young friend, I'll make you a deal. Join me, and we can defeat everyone, and YOU can live." Nex says
"No! Why should I join you? Your an evil deamon! Your even trying to defeat your own team!" Duilin yells
"Oh, but, us deamons should stick together!" Nex smiles
"US deamons? What are you talking about?!"
"I mean, your daddy, was a deamon, so therefore you are part deamon!"
"Don't bullshit me!"
"I'm not! I knew your father, we were old pals! He even wanted you to join!"
(Before the battle verses Scumfreeze)
Duilin, remember to always embrace happier memories. Never let the anger and hate overcome you. Embrace your human side, but never forget your demon side."
FLASH BACK OVER
I need to let that aside now...As Rink said, I need to focus my power and if I be carefull then I control it, without letting my demon side take over. I am humen, but slowly I'm becomeing more and more demon...First my wings grew....now, I'm starting to gain facial features of a demon...the horns on my wings are become bigger...My power, become stronger. But I am humen. Nex and my father continue to fight me, even beyond there death, but they will never take control.
"They won't you hear me! They won't!" Duilin, knealed down to the ground, and closed his eyes, a slight aura flashed around him...
//You think Duilin, is ready for the third level?//
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday April 6th, 2005
Zeros' nodded to Draven and looked upwards toward the golem barring down on Draven. Zeros' held out his palm and slowly gathered a white ki ball with wicked black stripes arching across its body. He let the energy loose as the ki ball sped towards the golem.
Zeros' then inclined his head towards Duilin and sent him a mental message. You see now Duilin. Rage can become a powerful weapon, but it can also become a boon. Always remember that. Never let rage seduce you.
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Ryu dodged and parried as the entity slashed downwards. Ryu sidestepped again and lashed out, both swords flashing with ki. The entity charged his own energy and blocked out most of the ki, but what remained made the entity stagger backwards, loosing the grip on his sword.
Ryu was now breathing heavily. The continuious use of ki has exhausted him and even now, he could see the blackness started to envelop him. Ryu staggered forwards and lashed out with both blades, cutting off both the entity's arms. It screamed out in rage as black blood poured out of the stubs that were once his arms.
"Y-Y-Y-Y-You...h-h-h-h-huma-n-n..." The being staggered forwards as Ryu plunged both blades into its gut. The entity staggered forwards and slid down to the handguards as black blood flowed down the blades and hilts. Ryu smiled dimly at the entity and removed both blades, sheathing them with a flourish as the entity dropped dead into a pool of his own blood and disappeare into the wind.
Ryu limped towards where Tsu was and smiled down at him. "N-N-No p-p-probl-l-l-lem..." He then fainted, the blackness of unconciousness welcoming him.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday April 6th, 2005
//Meh, well yes. Duilin, I supose will now be level 3. He's been around the 3rd longest, so I think he has earned it//
I will try Zeros', I will try. Duilin messaged back. Duilin, was amazed when he messaged back, he tried before, but he failed, his mind seems to move quicker now, yet he feals an inside void.
Duilin then walks up, a yellow aura flickering around him. He then dashes his way, near Draven and Zeros'. He glances at the mace fisted golem. "I thought I raised you better then that?" He then blasted an energy ball at the golem.
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday April 6th, 2005
The golem, showing amazing grace for its size, dodged the energy ball, which passed harmlessly.
Posted by: Trent on Wednesday April 6th, 2005
The entities that Zion and Xenai were fighting died as the enormous energy blasts connected and exploded with dazzling light. They seperated from their weapons, and withdrew them early. //I'll start the count at 12 for this.
"Wow, you're strong..." And out he goes.
=== === ===
EW ------------------------ 12
ZW ------------------------ 12
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday April 6th, 2005
(Haraldur, he's trying to absorb them. Your guys are trying to merge with him. Not that huge of a difference. Heh...)
One of the metalic incarnations touched the black dragon's forearm.
"Got ya!"
An aura of darkness engulfed the two as the incarnation's body began to lose its shape and fuse with the dragon...
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The huge fisted golem continued to descend upon Draven after dodging the attack, crushing the man under his huge metallic foot... The foot sank deep into the ground...
But then the foot began to rise in the air... Draven pushed it back with his right hand...
He quickly shot up the leg and was floating inches in front of the mammoth creature's face in an instant....
Draven seemed different... very different. He was focused and calm, yet wielded a burning anger like never before...
He reared his right fist back as it glowed with a bright crimson flame, then thrust it forward, aiming a brutal punch square between the eyes...
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday April 7th, 2005
The golem which the dragon was trying to absorb tried to merge with him at the same time.
The golem Draven attacked jumped up again, and landed behind the dragon, touched it, and started merging with it. The other seven incarnations touched the dragon, and also started merging with it. Their task was made easier by the fact that he was trying to absorb another, and failing, and by the fact that by doing so his defense against merging was down.
The dragon could not fight off the merging power of the nine incarnations, each as powerful as himself. All their shapes became indistinct, and then there were 10 Haraldur/Ragnar looking things in a group, with the most recent in the middle of them.
Any remaining entities are still there, since they are not affected by the original.
The one which was the fire element said, "You promised me revenge." The others nodded. They merged to form Haraldur's familiar form. "I will have all my revenge, all ten instances. But this, brother, will be our first priority."
He rose and said, "Goodbye, my friends, for I trust now that Draven is also a friend of yours, and so, mine. There are some things I must do. First, tell me, have you heard of someone called Alpha Retan? A dragon? This I must know. I must complete my revenge before I can destroy myself."
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday April 7th, 2005
Draven shot another telepathic message to Zeros'
"Don't believe him for a second... That maniac just merged with the greatest evil force known to man..."
He didn't disperse the energy he had collected, nor his focus. He simply folded his arms.
"Alpha Retan was an ancestor of Retan of the Dark Empire. His great grandfather, I believe. They were drakens, so yes, technically dragons. Drakens do not live forever as far as I know. He is long gone..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday April 7th, 2005
Zeros' shot back a message.
"I wont...ever again...after that..." Zeros' didn't need to refer to him and Duilin helping Haraldur get the weapons.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday April 7th, 2005
Duilin, nodded at Zeros'. He then watched in amazement as the golems merged with the dragons.
"This is just...crazy..." Duilin said.
His eye's were glowing yellow. You could barely make out the detail in his eyes, a firey aura flowed around him.
He looked at Haraldur "Iduran told me about a dragon, who knew about the weapons. But I am unsure if it has anything to do with Alpha Retan..."
Zeros' do you think we should let Haraldur finish his revenge? Ever since he started randomly killing people, I began to loose trust in him.
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday April 8th, 2005
"I will seek this dragon you speak of."
He flew towards the remains of Romme.
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday April 8th, 2005
Zeros' cursed under his breath in an ancient demon language, one which only demons like Rink and Zeros' could understand. He spread his wings and quickly flapped them, speeding off the ground, making the air pressure to shudder as the road broke under him. He sped off in the same direction as Haraldur, mentally sending a message to Duilin.
"Don't trust him. Ever. I begun to see threw his ploy just now. The dragon he seeks will further his power, if my calculations are correct." He also sent the last sentance to Draven, but he was sure Draven already came to the same conculsion. Zeros' smiled inwardly at Duilins growing powers. He's a different boy - to Zeros', as he's almost a millennia old - then when he first saw him in the first clash of Romme and the Dark Empire.
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday April 8th, 2005
"Tch! The nerve... He acts as if nothing happened..."
Draven began to float as Haraldur moved farther and farther away.
"All at once, we will strike. Surround him from all sides."
The battered Draven shot after him, approaching Haraldur's left as he began charging crimson energy in his right fist...
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday April 8th, 2005
As Draven appraoched the left of Haraldur, Haraldur arrived at the point where he was above the sea. He lowered into it, until he was travelling 10 metres under. He accelerated.
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday April 8th, 2005
The Great Prophet limped out of the burnt out house, leaning ong his staff. "Everyone rushing off everywhere! What are we supposed to do about The Light? She is comatose."
//Due to his limp, the prophet is now level 1.//
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday April 8th, 2005
"Prophet!" Duilin says "You missed out on everything. Listen, Haraldur is seeking the dragon."
"I think it's time we get, 'The Lights' help, if you say is true about her being able to tame The Bitter One." Rink says to the Prophet
"Good idea. Guy's I'm going with Draven and Zeros', I have a fealing I will be needed." Duilin, with the aid of his power and wings, jumps up 26 feet, and hovers in the air "If you guy's wish to follow, go ahead." He then smiles "If you can catch up!" He then flies off in the same direction as Haraldur, Zeros' and Draven.
"Hey, umm...Zion and Xenia. How did you do that stuff with those machines? That was like....amazeing!" Rink asked, trying to lighten up the mood
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday April 8th, 2005
The Prophet telepathed to Duilin and Rink: A dragon? If he has merged all of his ten parts, he will be wanting to have revenge on those, or those things, that have wronged him, of which there will be ten. Then he will destroy himself, or he will be destroyed if he fails his revenge. All the continents in this world have sunk below the sea and disintegrated, except fot the one with Laus. When The Bitter One is finally destroyed by himself, this continent will sink too. This is where The Light becomes involved. In order to prevent the sinking of the last continent, he will have to meet her before he destroys himself. It is essential that he does not destroy himself while still totally steeped in hatred. He must complete his revenge, and meet The Light. Do you understand?
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday April 8th, 2005
Duilin telepathed back to The Prophet: Yes, I understand. But you need to convince The Light, that her destiny is true. From what I saw, it dosen't look like she belived Rink. Perhaps, you, Rink and the trio can convince her, and then bring her here when it is safe. Zeros', Draven and I will try and stall him.
He then telepathed to Zeros' Zeros', The Prophet told me, that Haraldur has made all the continents in this world sink, except for the one with Laus. And if he complete's his revenge then Laus will fall to, and it very well may be the end of the world, unless we all turn into fish. He have to stall Haraldur.
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"Prophet? What will happen if they kill Haraldur?" Rink asked
Posted by: Trent on Saturday April 9th, 2005
Zion looked to Duilin. "Eternity Weapon and Zero Weapon? It's far too hard to explain, and it's gonna be a while before we can bring them back out."
"Let's go kick that golem dragon thing's ass!" Xenai's fists came together, he was rarin' to go.
"Can't go yet. We'll need Tsu." Zion looked over to him. He was out cold. "We must wait until he comes to."
=== === ===
EW ---------------------- 11
ZW ---------------------- 11
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday April 9th, 2005
Beside him, suffering from ki and chakra exhaustion, Ryu moaned weakly and rolled over on his back, hold up his gleaming metal hand.
"Alittle help here...?" He asked weakly.
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"I see...but what if we can destroy him? Wouldn't that be easier? Im sure between the three of us, we could possibly destroy him. I have no extent to the length of Haraldur's power, but it seems to be vast. What would happen if he just destroyed Haraldur though?" Zeros' telepathed back. He also relayed the information to Draven, who was at the moment, an ally.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday April 9th, 2005
The Great Prophet said to Duilin: You must not hinder his revenge, otherwise he might destroy himself prematurely. You must let him have his revenge, then make sure he meets The Light immediately after his last act of revenge. Take The Light with you, she need not be informed, it makes no difference, she will be just as reluctant if she knew.
With amazing strength for an old man, he pulled Ryu up.
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Ahead of Haraldur, below the oceans, he could see that last remains of Romme, and he saw a cave. He went towards it.
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday April 9th, 2005
Draven hovered above the spot where Haraldur submerged under water. He was too far away to shout, so he relayed a telepathic message back in the direction of the one he just recieved:
"He has gone where I cannot follow... Someone's going to have to go down there and fish him out..."
Draven looked around. He was floating above an endless ocean. He had seen no landmasses while following Haraldur.
Interesting... I though there were at least a few islands between here and Laus...
Posted by: Trent on Saturday April 9th, 2005
Zion casted some healing magic on Tsu. He slowly got to his feet. "...It's time to go, Tsu."
He shook his head and brushed the dust off of him. "Where?"
"To fight Haraldur, I believe..." He looked to Duilin. "Are you coming with us?"
=== === ===
EW -------------------- 10
ZW -------------------- 10
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday April 9th, 2005
//Duilins gone EoN, its Ryu thats almost unconciouss.\\
Ryu shook his head clear and looked at the four.
"I'll t-t-try...but my ki and chakra are almost g-g-gone..." He said stifling a yawn.
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Zeros' stopped by Draven and looked down towards the ocean.
"I could go down there...but theres something nagging at my skull for me to stay away..." Zeros' turned to Duilin. "What do you say?"
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 9th, 2005
//Duilin kinda allready left//
Rink ran up, "What about me and The Prophet? Should we come?" He asked
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Prophet, resummon the Light, have one of the trio bring her.
Duilin, rubbed his chin. "Zion and his friends are comming, I told The Prophet to tell them to bring The Light. We need Haraldur to kill the Dragon, and then bring The Light."
But he then thought some more "Yet, they might not get here in time. And defeating Haraldur, would most likey work. Or the dragon could possibly kill Haraldur, and the dragon would be enraged and possibly kill everything. I guess, I will go in, the whole thing is my fault for telling Haraldur about the dragon anways. If Zion, Xenia and Tsu get here with Ellena, bring her down."
Duilin took a deep breath, and then exhaled. He raised up his arms and clutched his fists, he formed an air energy sheild. He was amazed of his new power, he then lowers his arms, and then dives down into the water...
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday April 9th, 2005
Zeros' snorted in laughted and waved his hand over Draven, covering him in a magical shield that would allow him to breath underwater. He then used his own ki to form a sheild around himself and stopped hovering, diving into the depths of the water.
My ki and magical reserves are starting to deplete...I need to be careful. He thought to himself.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday April 9th, 2005
Haraldur arrived at the cave, and entered. There was a long tunnel. He walked along it.
___________________________________________________________
The Great Prophet said to Zion and the others, "Take The Light with you, she should not complain, she is unconscious."
He summoned her, and she arrived, lying on the floor.
"I am going to find a ship for myself."
He walked towards the harbour.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 9th, 2005
Duilin continued swimming, he could sence Haraldur's immense power. He began to follow it...
----
"Well that's great. What do I do?" Rink groaned
He paced around abit "Hey, dudes. You mind if I tag along?" He asked the trio. He then pointed to himself with his thumb, "Y'know, I need to make sure Duilin dosen't get hurt." he said with pride.
Posted by: Trent on Saturday April 9th, 2005
Zion casted his strongest white magic upon Kami-Ryu, then held Ellena in a fireman's carry, and then giving her to Tsu.
"Let's GO!!!"
The trio took off at high speed toward Haraldur. As they flew, Zion had an idea...
"Take the light with you..."
"Xenai... We're going to use The Light here, along with Draven... We'll power up New Forever..."
=== === ===
EW ------------------ 9
ZW ------------------ 9
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday April 10th, 2005
"Well..." Ryu then follows after The Great Prophet towards the harbour.
----
Zeros' sinks deeper as he uses his wings to manuver himself towards Haraldur and Duilin.
Posted by: Trent on Sunday April 10th, 2005
The trio arrived above where Haraldur was. Zion turned to face Tsu, who held Ellena. "Should I wake her?"
=== === ===
EW ---------------- 8
ZW ---------------- 8
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday April 10th, 2005
Duilin, arives at the cave. He looks down it, he spots Haraldur.
He twiches his fingers, and energy begins to flow threw, his eyes give a slight glow. He slowly walks down, trying to not let Haraldur notice him.
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"Hey, guys! Wait!" Rink shouts, but the trio is allready off. "I can't fly that.....fast" He then scratches the back of his head "Well that ain't no good." He then turns around and spots Ryu and The Prophet walking off. "Hey, I'm commin' to!" he begins running after Ryu and The Prophet.
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday April 10th, 2005
Draven watched as Duilin and Zeros' submerged. An image of him flying into the sea while getting electrocuted by Scorch's lightning strike flashed through his mind.
"Gyh..."
He flew farther up, away from the waves.
"It's not the breathing that worries me... My spells are quite ineffective underwater... Unless I part the waves, which is a pain... I'll remain here. As soon as he shows his head, he's mine..."
----
The innermost reaches of the underwater cave were unflooded. A deep voice growled from the darkness...
"Who...? Who is this that has broken into my prison?"
It was a gigantic Red Dragon, with gleaming red scales...
Posted by: Trent on Sunday April 10th, 2005
Zion saw Draven just floating there. "Hey! Draven!" He flew over to him. "As much as I don't like it, we need your help... ...That is, if you're open to ideas on how to beat Haraldur..."
//That IS Haraldur, right? :/
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday April 11th, 2005
Zeros' arrives by Duilin and quietly sneaks to his side, using his ki to mask his presence. He watches the dragon closely. He puts a hand on Duilin's shoulder and lets up on the technique for a moment, putting a finger to his lips and shaking his head negative before engaging them both in the cloaking technique.
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday April 11th, 2005
Haralur noticed a faint glow reflecting off the dark obsidian rocks. He turned, and saw Duilin.
"Welcome Duilin. Are you here to assist me?"
He heard the dragon's growl. He put his finger to his lips, signalling for Duilin to be silent.
He said in a loud voice: "One that would speak with you."
He saw an indistinct figure come up to Duilin, before it and Duilin disappeared in the shadows.
"Ah, good to see you here, Zeros'."
He turned again, and walked up to the dragon.
"Greetings. I am hoping that you might have some information for me, to help me with my inquiries."
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday April 11th, 2005
"Zeros' you think he saw us?" Duilin says sarcasticly. He releases himself from Zeros'. He then wispered "He dosen't seem to be expecting anything, but he seems to belive we are with him. Maybe we should just, get The Light down here...Alltough, he IS merged with The Dark Entity, perhaps he's trying to trick us." Duilin ponders for abit "What do you think we should do?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday April 11th, 2005
Zeros' whispers lowly, so the sound doesn't echo on the cave's rocks.
"We should wait...we need to strike when the time is right. According to the Prophet, if we kill Haraldur before time is up, he'll destroy himself and most of the surrounding area..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday April 11th, 2005
"Sounds good..." Duilin wispers "But how will we know when the time is right? And how should we do it?"
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday April 11th, 2005
Draven folded his arms and looked away.
"Gladly. Fish him out and I'll kill him. I'm not getting wet..."
The cool sea breeze blew his tattered cape.
----
The red dragon snorted and flames lit up the cave for an instant.
"I see you are a magician of some sort... I do not like your kind... But, I will answer you questions to the best of my knowledge... If you perform a favor for me in return. You see, some fiendish mage recently buried my cave here at the bottom of the sea while I was in deep slumber. I will admit I am the most incapable swimmer... If you would know another way out..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday April 12th, 2005
"I have one first question, and then I will have nine others. But before I ask, when did you become trapped? If it is a month ago, then you are evidently the dragon that lived in Romme.
"My first question is, I am led to believe there is or was a dragon named Alpha Retan. If he is still alive, I would wish to know of his whereabouts. I hope he is not dead, I would prefer not to go to the underworld, it takes time. After you answer me this first question, I will get you out of here, I am capable of drying part of the sea easily enough."
He turned towards Zeros' and Duilin, and said to the dragon, "Those two are half demons, and are friends of mine. It will go very hard for you if you even threaten violence against them, and yes, I do know about the animosity that still remains, a little, between dragons and demons, but I do not care."
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The Great Prophet came up to the harbour, and saw a crew lounging around a fishing ship. He lifted his staff up, and there was a huge cracking sound, like that of a whip. The crew were startled, and a little frightened by the spell casting.
He walked aboard the ship, and told the crew, "You will be my crew, and will take me where I wish."
He waited for Ryu and Rink to come aboard.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday April 12th, 2005
Rink glided onto the ship. "Yeah, and I'm an Imp, we imps have special powers. Such as turning people who don't listen to old guys into small rocks."
Rink was of course lyeing, but common people, wouldn't really know much about Imps.
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday April 12th, 2005
Ryu walked calmly on the boat, not aleast bit disturbedf by Rink or the Prophet. He started at Rink through half-lidded eyes. He whispered so only Rink could hear.
"You do know thats wrong right? Its more of the demon nature to burn humans into ash..." He chuckled under his breath.
----
Zeros' walked fowards calmly as he sent Duilin a message through his mind: Act like we trust him. Right know its best we act friendly with Haraldur. When the time comes, we can strike. Zeros' also sent Draven a message about his plan: We've met up with Haraldur. He's conforonting the dragon right know. Were acting friendly at the moment, but when the time comes, we will strike. Tell the same to Zion and his group.
"Ah. Hello Haraldur and you, dragon." He said inclining his head in the dragon's direction. Zeros' folded his eight black wings behind him and crossed his arms. "I believe I might have met you...briefly..." He said towards the dragon.
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday April 12th, 2005
Draven smirked and began to relay the message to Zion, who wouldn't have heard a thing.
"It seems fly-boy's playing along with Mr. Personalities' ruse for the moment. We'll let Ragnar think we're gullible idiots and trust him... for the moment. Then we strike. Rest up, boys. Things are going to heat up real quick..."
----
The dragon chucked at Haraldur's last comment.
"It is not demons that I dislike so much nowadays... It is humans..."
He then turned his head towards Zeros'.
"Hmm... You are not familiar. I do not recall an eight winged man."
Then back to Haraldur.
"One month perhaps... yes. I do not know what Romme is. I do not bother remembering names of human civilizations, as they appear and disappear so quickly..."
He stretched groggily, then snorted another plume of flame.
"Alpha Retan... that name, however, I will never forget... He was an insane Draken that conquered the world. I was once one of his knights. If you are looking for him, you are quite late I'm afraid. He disappeared while executing an attack that eradicated most of the life on the planet. This was over three millennia ago, mind you..."
Posted by: Trent on Tuesday April 12th, 2005
"Fish him out? Hydrophobic..." Zion looked into the water, floating back to the rest of the team. Then getting the next message. "Oh, now we're gonna play gullible, huh? Psh."
Xenai didn't get any of the messages. "What's going on?"
"Draven's afraid of water, and now all of a sudden, we have to pretend to trust Ragnar... Haraldur... Whoever."
"No action yet, then?"
"Nope."
=== === ===
EW: -------------- 7
ZW: -------------- 7
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday April 12th, 2005
"Well, they don't know that." Ryu wispered back
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Duilin, wondered if Haraldur, was trying to trick them. He was basically netrual about the entire idea, but he thought, better safe then sorry. He didn't wish to ask The Dragon any thing. He thought of asking if the dragon knew anything about his father, but he thought it was best left be. He never saw his father much, allways seemed to be out of the house doing jobs outside of town. He useally came home when he was asleep, and when the Dark Empire raided his village, his father seemed to have disappeared.
Duilin just crossed his arms, folded his wings down, and said nothing.
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday April 12th, 2005
"That is why I said briefly...however it seems my suspictions were wrong. However, it has come to my attention that Draken's are a form of dragon, correct? I believe it was when dragon seduced human females that the race of Draken's came into existance, am I right?" said Zeros' towards the dragon. "And is it also true that dragon's are capabe of obtaining a human form?
I have also heard rumors that Draken's were actually dragon's that stopped inbetween the two forms, combining them. I am merly curious."
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday April 13th, 2005
Haraldur said, "After I let you escape this cave, I would have you lead me to the place where he executed the attack. One must always visit part relatives, even if it is only through earthly form."
He chuckles at something to himself, then revealed what he found funny: "There is an irony here, though, considering you were one of Alpha Retan's knights. Two in fact. On month ago, the island of Romme, where this cave used to be, were invaded by the forces of the Dark Empire, lead by a fire mage called Draven, who, I guess, is probably above us refusing to enter the water. He was after the last of six weapons, a sword held by the knight Iduran of Romme. Those six weapons are 6 of my 10 parts, all of whom are here. Two of my parts then left Vikingagarð, unknowing of their identity, to see what was happening on the island nation. These two met Iduran and we helped, a little, Zeros' and Duilin here to prevent the weapon falling into Draven's hands, for which I am truly grateful. Annoyed by Draven's lack of visible progress, his commander in chief, the Dark Emporer, arrived at Romme himself, and his name was Retan, a descendent of your former master. He cames also with his son, Jayce, and another of his generals, who was also a relative, Neptra. To cut a long story short, Retan eventually decided to destroy the country using an MDAA, which I helped, in part, well two parts, elder Haraldur and Ragnar, to accelerate, on unknowing and the other one knowing the outcome. The outcome was that the MDAA detonated early, destroying Retan, Jayce and Neptra, or so we think. It also destroyed Romme, and trapped you here.
"So, you were trapped by Alpha Retan's descendent, Retan. However, the two Haraldur's and Ragnar were also descendents in earthly terms, all being related to Vikingagarð's royal house, the elder Haraldur being the crown prince. Further, the tenth part of me is dragon shaped, formed from some of Alpha Retan's blood. As you know, the six weapons were creations of my father Melkoth, of whom all my parts are a son to. I am sure you understand the irony.
"I wonder, with what I have told you, are you sufficiently versed in lore to have guessed who I am yet?"
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday April 13th, 2005
The red dragon addressed Zeros' first.
"Yes, the Drakens are a race of Dragon. Where exactly they came from, I am not sure. From what I heard, Alpha Retan came to this land from another plane of existence along with a handful of his kind... But he seemed different in that other Drakens have a much shorter life span than he.
"All other dragons are incapable of shifting forms unless they learn some other means... As for your final question, I have never heard of a Draken that has partially transformed."
He then turned to Haraldur, yawning sleepily...
"Hmmm, your speak of 'parts' confuses me. Hmph, yes, I am unsurprised that it is a descendant of Retan that put me in this predicament.
"Six weapons... Melkoth... I believe he was an enemy of Retan... Or perhaps I am thinking of someone else. It has been a long time... I recall an event in which six weapons were used to merge with and contain Retan's most powerful tool-- a dark entity he created which had no mind except to serve him..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday April 13th, 2005
"Let us leave," said Haraldur. He walked along the tunnel, expecting Zeros', Duilin and the dragon to follow. He came to a watery bit, and muttered a few words.
Much like at the first time all the group had gone to a shrine, there was a mass of steam as the water seemed to burn away.
Haraldur stepped out onto the seabed, look up at Draven, smiled, and bowed to Draven in a mocking fashion.
________________________________________________________
The ship was pushed off, and left the harbour.
Posted by: Trent on Wednesday April 13th, 2005
Zion looked to Draven, then into the water, thinking that he saw Haraldur bowing. "Uwaa?"
=== === ===
EW / ZW ------------ 6
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday April 13th, 2005
Duilin, turned and began to follow Haraldur. He turned his head and took a look at the dragon. He then turned his head to Zeros' "Let's go." Duilin said.
He rasied his arms, and created the air sheild. He then lowered his arms and dived down into the water and arived back up at the surface. He saw Zion, with Ellena, and gave a slight grin.
He telepathed to Zeros' The Light is here, we may not have to kill Haraldur after all, we just need to bring the girl.
He then telepathed to Draven We're going to the ruins of were Alpha Retan was. Haraldur wants go there for some reason. We'll attack him there, maybe.
He didn't wish to share the part about not attacking Haraldur, and just haveing The Light with them, when he completes his revenge, with Draven. He could just sence that Draven would disapprove with the fact, and maybe make things worse, somehow. He could still not trust Draven.
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday April 13th, 2005
Zeros' crossed his arms and spread his wings.
"Good-bye, Lord Dragon." He bowed and used his ki to form a shield around him and left out the cave. He blasted upwards and came to the surface, shaking his head and looking at Draven, then towards the Trio with Ellenna.
He sent them all a message: Zion, Xenia, Tsu; come with us and bring Ellenna. Draven, I would advise you stay far enough away that Haraldur cannot sense you. We will be able to attack Haraldur soon. We just have to bid our time...
----
Ryu glanced around and sighed.
"GET THIS DAMN SHIP MOVING!" he bellowed. The crew jerked in surprised before they went about for a few minutes, preping everything before the captain cave a shout and the ship moved out of the harbor, towards the direction of the group.
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday April 14th, 2005
//Er... Haraldur just made the sea burn away, and there are walls of water to the sides, like at the first shrine. There is no water.//
Posted by: Trent on Thursday April 14th, 2005
//It's Xenai. ai. Not ia. Heh.
Yes... But Draven... if you can manipulate dark energy, I'll need you to be ready to come at a moment's notice. The trio flew in close and followed.
=== === ===
EW/ZW ---------- 5
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday April 14th, 2005
Draven didn't say a word. He continued floating in the fixed position he had been, arms folded, as Haraldur bowed. He merely looked down upon him...
At that moment the red dragon burst forth from the dried cave in full flight. Finally out of the darkness, the magnitude of the majestic beast could be seen at last. He was some 100 feet from head to tail, with a wing span approaching 200 feet. Draven was somewhat taken by surprise by the dragon and the familiar intense fire elemental aura that it exuded... The dragon returned the glance as it flew by, watching Draven for a few seconds before arcing around and swooping above Haraldur.
"Crimson... Dragon..."
The dragon swooped over Haraldur's head, and began flying north.
"I will take you near where I believe the incident happened. I cannot guarantee anything, though. A world likely changes much in three thousand years..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday April 14th, 2005
Zeros' mearly nodded and followed the dragon.
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday April 15th, 2005
Haraldur followed the dragon and said to Draven, "You might like to come, if you would wish to know anything about your former master, but I guarantee nothing."
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday April 15th, 2005
Duilin seemed amazed as the dragon flue out of the cave. It looked much cooler in action. He then flue off following the dragon.
---
"Wow are we going to get anywere is there is water!?" Rink groaned. He paced around the boat "This sucks..."
Posted by: Trent on Friday April 15th, 2005
The entire trio was shocked by the dragon, Tsu so much that he nearly dropped Ellena.
"Ho, shit! Damn, that's big!" Xenai voiced his surprise, of course, in the most expletive way possible.
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday April 15th, 2005
What could this fool possibly want with Alpha Retan, now? Is he looking to absorb more dark spirits?
Draven trailed behind, but flying higher than the rest. Clenching his fists, he contacted Zeros' telepathically again:
"I've had just about enough of this. The very existence of him after what we've been through is but a mockery to each and every one of us..."
----
Far enough away from the cave, the sea thrashed against the invisible wall holding it back. The huge dragon flew over the water, gracefully increasing its speed.
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday April 15th, 2005
The ship had reached the end of the water. Below them, dead whales and fish and dolphins littered the now dry seabed. When the sea came back, it would be scavenger heaven. Then the invisible barrier disappeared, as Haraldur stopped the spell. The seas spilled inwards, pulling the little ship downwards and forwards before eventually arising to the top of the whirlpoll that had formed as the sea rushed in. The waves were huge.
The Great phophet shouted, "Shit!" as they were falling.
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Haraldur telepathed to Draven and Zeros': Indeed, Draven. What you have been through. You do not know the meaning of the phrase Draven. Zeros' might, but you do not. Even if you spend the rest of your life in utter torture, it will not compare to how I have suffered. This would be further lessened by the fact your life would be very short. So you talking about what you have been through in reference to me is quite pathetic to me. As far as I know, you have only died once, and then, you might not have died. Look on the bright side of your life, Draven, after all, if you defeat Zeros' and the others after this, if you have the ability, the competance, which currently impresses me little, then you will be the emporer of the only remaining continent on this planet.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 16th, 2005
"Shit, is right!" Rink yelled. "Why the hell is there a wirlpool?! There isn't supost to be any wirlpools! Who said that we were going to have wirlpools!"
Rink shifted his head around. "Ryu! Do something heroic! I'm to scared!" He paniced
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday April 16th, 2005
The Great Prophet said, "Of course there is a whirlpool. The sea has rushed inwards and is swirling around."
The whirlpool was no diminishing, and now became just part of a mass of sea that was hugely agitated, with 20 metre waves.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 16th, 2005
"Well I'm glad that's over.." Rink sighed in relief. "Now we just have to deal with extremely large waves. What fun."
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday April 16th, 2005
Draven stopped completely, and folded his arms.
"So, you can intercept telepathic signals. I didn't think you would be stupid enough to think you could trick even those fools who blindly followed you from the beginning, let alone me, who was your enemy even from the start."
He brought his arms to his side, a crimson orb surrounding the man...
"Oooo... you're suffering... gonna cry? Here, let me make it better..."
Several hundred orbs of flame emanated from the man in all directions as his aura of flame increased dramatically. Fiery masses crashed into the ocean below, adding to the turbulent waves. His voice echoed across the skies:
"I care not of your suffering, your personalites, whatever this light is, or the babblings of a senile old man! Your antics have gone on long enough, Ragnar! I shall snap your life like a twig!!"
----
The dragon turned around to look at the trailing madman just in time to bat away a stray fireball with his right claw.
"What is this?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday April 16th, 2005
Haraldur moved his arm upwards, causing a portion of the sea of a few hundred cubic metres, to rise up, engulf some fireballs that were going towards it. The fireballs had little effect, only evaporating a little of the vast mass of water moving upwards.
He said, "You have chosen the wrong place to attack me Draven. And you might care about my parts soon Draven."
He turned to the dragon. "This is a fire mage," he said, "Whose name is Draven, the one I told you invaded Romme, where your cave was." He turned to Draven again. "The one too incompetant to secure the last part of me Retan needed, and so brought Retan here, and so indirectly caused you to be buried for a month.
He split onto his ten parts, who then changed their forms. Each of them had the same aura, the aura that Haraldur had before he merged with the weapons, the dark one of many dark shades. It engulfed them all in a haze, and amount of red in the aura was increasing, until it seemed purely of red and black. They surrounded Draven, and in the middle of the circle, where Draven was very close to, a ball of pure destructive energy formed. They then started to move so Draven would be in the middle of the circle.
Posted by: Trent on Saturday April 16th, 2005
"Aw, crap..." Zion watched Haraldur charge Draven. "What the crap do we do?" Zion looked to Zeros', welcoming suggestions.
=== === ===
EW/ZW -------- 4
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 16th, 2005
"Guys! Stop it!" Duilin yelled "We don't have time for this!"
He began, to move toward the two...
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday April 16th, 2005
"God damnit..." He muttered. "Now I have to play babysitter..." He continued to mutter under his breath till his waved his hand, causing his sword to leap and transform. He slashed downwards with it, causing a wave of pure holy energy to intercept the darkness energy.
"CAN WE SETTLE THIS LATER!?" he yelled. "LETS DEAL WITH THIS DRAGON, THEN YOU CAN RIP EACH OTHER TO SHREADS!"
----
"That was interesting..." Ryu muttered to himself. He looked up at the waves then down to Rink.
"Well, just hold on and enjoy the ride," he said smiling.
Posted by: Trent on Saturday April 16th, 2005
Zion's eyes widened. Zeros' can manipulate Holy energy?! The more holy and dark energy there is, the better... As long as it's relatively even...
=== === ===
EW/ZW ------ 3
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 16th, 2005
Rink crossed him arms, and rolled his eyes at Ryu "Yeah, right..."
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday April 17th, 2005
Draven ignored Zeros' entirely and shot straight downwards towards the sea, escaping the closing circle of his foe's forms, which was now above him. As he approached the water, it bowed away from him as identical magnetic poles repel each other. This caused a massive wave to travel out in a circle away from him.
He plummeted downwards and downwards, the water flying farther and farther away until he landed on the dry sandy sea floor on one knee. He placed his right palm on the ground, which began to glow red.
"Fool! Feel the wrath of the planet you dare distort! VULCAN BLAST!!"
He jumped up, now flying straight at the Harladur incarnations from below. The ground mounded up and followed him as he rose, cracking and burning. He had tapped into a stream of magma below and created a volcano...
The mountain rose from the earth following its master as it broke sea level, the returning water splashing and steaming against it. Higher and higher it mounded until it erupted in volcanic fury, sending a huge wave of lava straight upwards, engulfing Draven and rushing all ten incarnations from below...
----
The dragon circled the battle, irritated at first.
"I will not wait for your petty squabbles..."
But he watched the fire mage with increasing interest. The other one is definitely not human, but the fire mage... It is impossible for a human to wield so much power...
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday April 17th, 2005
Zeros' looked over towards Zion and his group...
"It's useless isn't it?" he asked towards no one in particualr.
----
"Well that's about all we can do now..." He then pointed towards the horizion to where Draven summedhis volcano, which was now plainly visible, as well as the Dragon. "At least untill they calm down."
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday April 17th, 2005
Duilin, flue backwards a few feet Draven created the Volcano. He knew he couldn't stop them from fighting. "Dragon! Please, stop them." He called
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"Whoa!" Rink said getting up, looking at the Dragon "Son of a bitch..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday April 17th, 2005
The incarnations smiled faintly, and then rushed into one, in Haraldur shape, a little way away from the magma's path. The energy ball fell.
The energy ball landed at the top of the magma, and detonated, sending bits of magma and anything inside the stream of magma flying in every direction, and causing the volcano below to explode forming a large hole in the sea bed, too large for magma to stream out at high speed. Then the sea came back, causing a steamy haze to cover the battle area.
Haraldur watched for any movement.
Posted by: Trent on Sunday April 17th, 2005
"I don't think they're gonna stop." Xenai crossed his arms and watched attentively. Zion was watching as well, but Tsu was getting tired of holding Ellena, and had all of his attention focused on not dropping her.
=== === ===
EW/ZW ---- 2
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday April 17th, 2005
Zeros' noticed Tsu struggle and used his speed to almost transport in front of him. He smiled at him and took Ellenna from his arms, not waiting for a response. He flew on to his previous position, keeping his vigil.
"Anyone up for a spar?" he asked casually, dropping Ellenna, who floated quietly in the air, a shimmering barrier of magic around her whole body.
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"That is interesting...looks like Draven lost his temper or some such..." He muttered to himself.
Posted by: Trent on Monday April 18th, 2005
"Right here." Zion had enough stamina for a spar.
Tsu plopped onto his butt, finding repose upon it.
Xenai created a tiny little ball of energy and dropped it, kicking it around in the air (Hackey sack (sp?)... Heh).
=== === ===
EW/ZW -- 1
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday April 18th, 2005
Zeros' unsheathed his sword, transforming it, holding it pointed towards Zion, his left hand held limp at his side while his right held the gigantic sword steady. He spread out all eight of his wings and looked at Zion with half-lidded eyes. (Makes him look less alert)
----
Ryu sighed.
"Any ideas Rink?"
Posted by: Trent on Monday April 18th, 2005
Zion unsheathed Eternity Weapon as he turned to face Zeros'. He yawned with his free hand, his eyes half-closed as well. As his free hand fell, a flick of the wrist would flick a ki ball at Zeros'.
=== === ===
EW/ZW Ready!
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday April 18th, 2005
Tremendous amounts of steam engulfed the air above the sea as the lava tried to push its way back over the top of the waves.
"Over here!"
Draven, who had slipped to the opposite side of the energy ball as it made contact with the magma, was now directly above Haraldur. Balancing on his right hand above his head was a massive glowing sphere of tightly compact lava, over twenty feet in diameter.
"Die, cretin!!"
He launched it straight downwards at his foe...
Hit or miss, it was going to make a mess...
----
The dragon glided past Duilin.
"Their battle is none of my concern... However, I am appalled by this rudeness. I shall continue on my own..."
With a great flap of the wings, he continued on north, away from the battle...
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday April 19th, 2005
Haraldur split into his parts, who were in a circle, with the ball of magma falling through the middle of the circle. He then rejoined himself.
Seeing that the dragon was moving North, he decided to stop fighting, it was wasting time, so he followed the dragon Northwards.
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"Young people of today..." murmered the prophet.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday April 19th, 2005
"Finnally." Duilin sighed. He then looked at Draven "Don't you go attacking him again!" He said. He then nodded to the others, and then followed the Dragon.
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"Hmm, looks like they stoped, they are moveing now. Let's follow them!" Rink said
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday April 19th, 2005
Zeros' caught the ki ball in his free hand and lobbed it into the air and with a flourish, sheathed his weapon and nodded his head towards the dragon, who was currently flying away. He flew towards Ellenna's position and picked her up in his arms and flew towards the dragon, being mindful to keep a sheild around Ellenna.
----
Ryu folded his arms and tapped his foot.
"Hmm..." he murrmered to himself. He then jumped off the side of the boat, running on the water. He bent down and ran fast and fast.
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday April 19th, 2005
The ball of magma continued downward, plunging into the sea. A brief moment of silence preceded a massive water-muffled explosion. The ocean turned red as a geyser shot hundreds of feet into the sky. When it was over, the sea was visibly draining into a rupture in the ocean floor, forming a vortex above...
Draven clenched his right fist as Haraldur simply flew away.
"Typical!"
He turned to Duilin with fire in his eyes...
"YOU don't tell me what to do, you miserable little ingrate!!"
Quite irate, he flew a bit higher, addressing the whole group surrounding him with two clenched fists.
"Idiots! You had at least two openings... I'm not following you wreatches around because I like being watched!!"
He chopped the air with his right hand.
"GYAAHH!!!"
He fell to a lower altitude and took off in a north-western direction, parting the sea below from the force of his flight...
If you want something done right...
----
The dragon noted Haraldur was following once again, but said nothing. He continued on for a while, surveying the endless ocean around them.
"Hmm... yes, it appears the world has changed. I recall a group of islands that we should have passed a while ago..."
Posted by: Trent on Tuesday April 19th, 2005
"Calm the hell down." Some advice given from Xenai to Draven.
Zion sheathed Eternity Weapon, and the trio continued on their way.
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EW/ZW Ready!
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday April 19th, 2005
Duilin, glared at Draven. "Fine!" He said, and then turned away, and continued flying off, with the others "We should kick his ass after were done." He said quietly to Zeros'. "Why did we even let him join in the first place. He's tried to kill all of us at least twice. I lost track after third or fouth time, for me."
---
"Hey!" Rink yelled, as he jumped off the boat, and flue after Ryu "Were do you think you're going!" Rink called. He then turned around "Old guy! I mean, Prophet, you coming?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday April 19th, 2005
Ryu shrugged and continued running on the water, unconciouslly using his ki and chakra to regulate himself.
"I'm following their energy signatures. If you concentrate enough, you can sense them. Haraldur, Zeros', Draven and Duilin have the largest ones, as well as the dragon. Zion and his group are alot smaller then the others, more then likely due that the others aren't exactly human." he said and shrugged.
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"Don't worry about it," said Zeros', murmurring lowly. "We'll deal with it when the time comes," said Zeros' reassuringly.
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday April 20th, 2005
Haraldur said, "That is only a very recent change, it only happened on this day. It will happen to the only remaining continent on this world, too, unless I am fulfilled."
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The Great Prophet caused a wind to blow the ship quite fast following the Dragon.
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday April 20th, 2005
"A very recent change..." Zeros' murmurred to himself, "your talking about Retan's MDAA, right?"
----
"Rink," he said towards the small imp, "we need a plan. Were not strong enough to take them on directly...they'd obliterate us before we could blink." He sighed and turned his head towards the imp, "Have any plans?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday April 20th, 2005
Haraldur said to Zeros', "I was referring to the recent sinking of all the land except for the land mass which was previously dominated by the Dark Empire."
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday April 20th, 2005
Draven had steered far away from the group and was now over the ravaged lands of the former Dark Empire. His diabolical mind raced with schemes as a slight smirk crossed his face.
----
The dragon growled,
"I hope you are not disturbing the delicate forces of the planet itself..."
He arched his head back forward to the northern horizon.
"Yes... now I remember the spot. No land markers will be necessary..."
The air was getting noticeably colder, and vast chunks of ice began to appear in the sea below.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday April 20th, 2005
"What? Attack them? Why? Who? Huh? Why?" Rink asked with an odd look on his face
----
Duilin, shivered slightly. Yet the coolness was slightly soothing to him. Draven's volcano did give off alot of heat. He looked at the water below, and stared at his reflection moveing along with him. "How much further?" He asked
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday April 21st, 2005
"Not much," said Zeros' as he squinted towards the horizion.
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"Attack Haraldur, of course," said Ryu bluntly, "who else?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday April 21st, 2005
Haraldur looked at the Dragon in surprise and said, "Why would I wish to disturb myself?"
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The Great Prophet said, "I said it is imperitive not to hinder him."
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday April 21st, 2005
The red dragon slowed in his flight, replying to Haraldur skeptically.
"Hmmm... you are perhaps the most curious of beings I have met in my entire life..."
A flap of the wings.
"We have arrived..."
The ocean was completely frozen here, covered by countless centuries of unmelting snow. The solid ground formed of the ocean of ice was completely flat, save some rolling hills that were only noticeable to those flying at a low altitude. There was nothing here at all. They were essentially at the planet's northern pole.
But a few seconds more of flight would review a dramatic sight through the mist ahead. The ice suddenly dropped off sharply, going down well over several thousand feet. The dragon lead the group over this ridge and continued on. Even past the ridge the ground sloped downwards more, becoming deeper and deeper. It was several moments later before the opposite ridge was visible.
It was a giant crater.
"This is where it happened, over three millennia ago... Now I will take my leave, as I have repaid my debt. I wish you good fortune on... whatever endeavor you seek to partake..."
The great dragon swooped around the group and began to return in the direction from whence he came.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday April 21st, 2005
Ryu rubbed his head "I stand by my confused slurs..." He then thought for a second "We should just wait, for the others to attack or, whatever Old guy has in mind, I mean Prophet..."
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"There dosen't appear to be anything in sight." Duilin sighed "Were do you think this, Alpha Retan is, Haraldur?"
Zeros' we should be ready with the Light, we just might not have to attack Haraldur, since we have her.
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday April 21st, 2005
Zeros' nodded his head. I agree Zeros' clutched Ellenna tighter as he peered down into the crater curiously.
"Ahh yes...I can still sense the risidual traces of Dark magic, as well as demonic and angelic auras...curious...curious..." he murmured to himself.
----
Ryu hopped off the water, rising into the air as he landed on the ice and started jumping from glaicer to glaicer with inhuman percision.
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday April 22nd, 2005
Haraldur looked towards the Dragon, and said, "I believe the agreement was that you would assist me ten times in return. Your life for my death. Wait... this might be the place for everything after all... All my parts were born partly of Alpha Retan and of Melkoth... Hooray that this day has come..."
He lowered slowly.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday April 22nd, 2005
"I sence them to." Duilin said. He looked at Haraldur, as he lowered down. He then turn and looked around at everyone else. He then looked back at Haraldur.
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Rink continued flying threw heading his way toward the others
"It seems that they have stoped, and the Dragon left..." Rink said "You think they know we are following?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday April 22nd, 2005
Ryu nodded. "Its possible, very possible, but unlikely, still..." He muttered as he hoped from another glacier and slid on a long incline.
----
Zeros' nodded and floated down with Haraldur, albeit more slowly.
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday April 22nd, 2005
A caped figure stood amongst a partially ruined fortress. The setting sun was to his left.
Draven inspected the damage done to what was once the capital of the Dark Empire. A shame... well, not really... in the end, it doesn't really matter at all... He ignored the groans of several injured soldiers lying about and entered what was once a majestic front gateway.
Posted by: Trent on Friday April 22nd, 2005
Xenai gave a whistle. "Inconcievable," said Zion. Tsu just floated there gaping in awe.
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EW/ZW Ready!
Posted by: CyberWolf on Friday April 22nd, 2005
//Sorry I was gone, (Well not really, but =P), anyways, I'll sum up what happened to my remaining Characters...//
Nevina and Qarmic get to Limbo, Nevina steps into the light, mumbles her incantation, breaks the connection between Midgard and hell, but as she does, Qor/Armic begin to fall appart and both perish, but before that happens, they managed to limp up behind Nevina and slice out her throat, then they die. She ascends into Heaven and becomes a Goddess because of her being a Martyr for a greater good.
//I'm sure it doesn't matter though, they really weren't vital to the storyline now anyway.//
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday April 23rd, 2005
Zeros' looks up at the three and nods his head.
"Tsu, close your jaw. Your liable to catch flies," he joked towards the man, but anyone could see the seriousness in his startling emerald green eyes.
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Ryu suddenly started running faster and jumped high into the air, using his chakra to "hop" into the air, propelling himself forwards rapidly. He landed, cat-like, on all fours right under Tsu's group.
"Hello there," he waved vaguely up at the three, before looking down into the crater.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 23rd, 2005
Duilin lowers down with Zeros' and Haraldur. He could feal that something was going to happen and he needed to be there.
Rink finally arived with the others. "Duilin! We're here." He began to lower down towards Duilin
"Stay there Rink." He commanded "I don't want you to get hurt..."
Rink shugged and then nodded
"Never thought I'd say that..." Duilin mumbled to himself
Posted by: Trent on Saturday April 23rd, 2005
Xenai took care of that with a quick bop. "Ow!" Then Tsu kicks Xenai's butt. "Hey, hey! Hands and feet off!"
The trio waved down at Ryu, Tsu holding his chin.
Zion floated over to Zeros'. "What business have we here?"
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EW/ZW Ready!
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday April 23rd, 2005
"Be on guard," Zeros' warned, "we have no idea what's liable to happen," he shook his head ruefully. He waved backwards towards Ryu, who waved back while using his cloak to walk down the slope.
"Don't worry about me," he reassured Zeros', who was cut off from his thoughts, "I won't fight anything unless I absolutely have to."
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday April 23rd, 2005
(CyberWolf: Aw, you could have at least posted that in dramatic RP form. Heh... Ah well, closure is closure.)
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Silence. Dead Silence. Except for the wind...
It was a deep, raspy voice, yet very far away.
"Yes... come closer... perfect..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday April 23rd, 2005
//Where is this voice?//
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 23rd, 2005
//I think we are not supost to notice that, it would be stupid if you did and ruin everything, to be honest.//
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday April 24th, 2005
//Either the voice is where Draven is, or it is where we are. That is why I asked.//
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday April 24th, 2005
//I think its where we are...\\
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday April 24th, 2005
(Sorry. That was meant for you guys. Heh...)
As Haraldur neared the base of the crater, a thin white light slowly rose from the ground. After becoming some eight feet in length, it widened to the shape of a doorway, large enough for one person to enter at a time...
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday April 24th, 2005
"Amazeing..." Duilin said "Looks like we'll have to enter single file..." He subjests.
"But should we all go in?" Rink asks
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday April 25th, 2005
"Looks like it," murmurred Zeros'. Ryu nodded his head in agreement.
Posted by: Haraldur on Monday April 25th, 2005
Haraldur walked up to be right in front of the door, and shouted: "Will you come out, or will I have to drag you out? The outcome will be the same."
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday April 25th, 2005
Nothing but a profond silence...
(Heh...)
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday April 25th, 2005
"Who's he talkin' to?" Rink wispered
"Haraldr, perhaps, we should go in?" Duilin subjested
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday April 26th, 2005
Haraldur said, "Do what you like, I am getting the bastards."
He entered the door... and was traveliing through a blue tube at huge speed.
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday April 26th, 2005
Zeros' shrugged and stepped into the doorway right after Haraldur. He found himself in the same blue tube, traveling at high speeds.
----
"I'll stay here," said Ryu as he stepped aside.
Posted by: Trent on Tuesday April 26th, 2005
The trio followed in, going single-file.
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EW + ZW Ready!
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday April 26th, 2005
After traveling through distorted layers of dimensions, those that entered the doorway found themselves in a large dark room, the portal behind them...
The walls and ceiling were jet black, and it was impossible to tell how close or far they were, or if there were nothing there at all. The floor was an intricate tiled pattern that faded off into the surrounding darkness.
Many feet before them was a golden throne, surrounded by four lit torches burning an eerie deep blue flame. In this throne sat an old man, with his head leaning on his right hand as if he had been dozing, although he wasn't anymore...
The man seemed very frail and his white beard was long. This contrasted greatly with the heavy plates of black armor that covered his upper body. These details were very faint, however, as the old man, the throne-- everything was covered with a thick layer of gray dust. He had clearly been sitting there for a long time...
He shifted his weight slightly, sitting up straighter. This caused layers of congealed dust to tear away from his body and fall to floor.
"Ah, yes... excellent. Took you a bit longer than I expected, but no matter. So, have you executed the purge?"
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday April 26th, 2005
(Before the old man speaks)
Duilin begins entered following the others. "Rink stay here with Ryu." He says slightly turning his head.
"Fine!" Rink crosses his arms "I never get to do anything..."
"That's because you can't do anything..." Duilin sighes and then enters and disappers with the others
Duilin looks around, and then narrows his eye brows as the old man speaks. What is he talking about. The purge? Was that Haraldur's rampage? He thought
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday April 27th, 2005
Haraldur said, "Maybe, depends on what it is."
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday April 27th, 2005
Zeros' crossed his arms across his chest and folds his wings inward as he steps towards Duilin.
"Keep your guard up," he murmurred under his breath, just barely loud enough for Duilin to hear. "Something doesn't smell right..."
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday April 27th, 2005
The old man slowly got out of the chair, more dust falling off of him as he supported himself on a long cane that was leaning on the right side of the throne.
He seemed to stretch, his bones cracking.
"What else? The world. You've finished destroying it, haven't you?"
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday April 28th, 2005
"The last parts will fall apart when I am finished, unless certain events, of which I am sure you know of, take place. As for the fate of the world, to me it matters little, since I would not be here to love or loathe it."
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday April 28th, 2005
"Destroying the world...you would have the world destroyed? The world that betrayed you? The world that destroyed you, Alpha Retan?" he inquired from the old man.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday April 28th, 2005
Duilin nodded in agrement to Zeros' command.
"But how could he destroy the world, if the world allready destroied him?" Duilin added
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday April 28th, 2005
"How would he destroy the world? Me. He made an agreement with my father Melkoth. Six weapons would be made to help him in his revenge. Unbeknownst to them, however, I was the power source, and I split into 4 at birth, with one disappearing a lot faster than the rest. They found out, and decided it was the perfect arrangement, especially since I am the force of nature. I wish to revenge myself."
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday April 28th, 2005
"Yes, I'm aware you wish to revenge yourself, but what did the world do to you, to deserve such punnishment?" Duilin asks
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday April 28th, 2005
"The world? I have nothing against the world. It is them who I intend to have my revenge against."
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday April 28th, 2005
"So, you wish to punish Alpha Retan for his crimes or do you want to punish your father, Melkoth?" said Zeros' towards Haraldur.
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday April 28th, 2005
"Meh heh heh... One cannot build without tearing down first. Destroying by force is a mess and would render the energy of the planet useless. However..."
The old man looked straight at Haraldur.
"If one of the planet, were to decompose it entirely to its base state, the pure energy would be completely harvestable."
He smiled widely, uncovering gaping yellow teeth.
"It is unfortunate that the virus I implanted on Number Ten wasn't totally successful, or else you surely would have completed this task already. But that is quite acceptable, because the main function-- the need to seek me out and thus forever tear a hole in this prison, was quite a success. It was quite an easy emotion to program, the desire for vengeance...
"You have been very useful, child. Go now and meet your destiny. Reduce the rest of existance to nothing. I shall be waiting..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday April 29th, 2005
Haraldur turned to Zeros', "Both," he said.
He turned to Alpha Retan, "You are mistaken. The virus was totally eradicated from my system, by myself. You have no control over me. I suspect my father will get involved after I have finished you, but no matter he will die soon too. Prepare to die, Alpha Retan."
Haraldur clicked his fingers, and the portal behind him disappeared, leving the room completely cut off from the universe, much like his personal dimension.
"It is impossible for you to escape. I have the knowledge from my own universe, and I can control all others."
Haraldur opened his right fist, with a blue flame burning from it. He started to walk towards Alpha Retan.
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday April 29th, 2005
"Should we help Haraldur or leave him to his own devices?" he asked Duilin.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday April 29th, 2005
"Maybe we should help him. This Alpha Retan is sick, and I belive we should aid in ridding the world of him." Duilin said "But I fear if we do, we might kill him, and Haraldur's revenge would be failed, yet I don't know what would become of that..."
"Yet, I still don't think we should just sit here, like a bunch of losers. And we can be carefull..." Duilin nods "Yeah, lets. Something about this Alpha Retan guy makes me think that he is more then meets the eye. Yet, who isn't these days?"
Duilin's eyes glow bright yellow, he charges energy and aborbs heat and makes flame, the energy swirls around as Duilin crafts the energy ball...
Posted by: Trent on Friday April 29th, 2005
The trio slid into ready stances, ready to fight, though holding off on summoning their weapons... Heck, could they even summon them here?
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EW + ZW Ready!
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday April 29th, 2005
A bright flash of light emanated from the old man. But it didn't appear to do anything...
"Dear child, you have much to learn. But that begs the question, can something artificial actually learn?"
He leaned forward on his cane with a smirk, as if anxiously awaiting Haraldur's attack.
----
The flash of light shot out of the portal at the bottom of the crater as it closed, slowing and becoming a human-esque shape, walking slowly on a cane, hunched over and weighed down by thick plates of black armor under a long black cape. The real Alpha Retan nodded politely to Kami-Ryu, who was positioned nearby.
"Good day."
He began floating, slowly rising high above the frozen crater. He closed his eyes as he read the planet...
"Let us see... only a few continents... a mere 10-11% of the planet's total energy freed. Rather unfortunate. It is much more than I would have been able to extract if I had destroyed it myself, however, so I will consider this a partial success."
He brought the staff above his head, revealing a blood red ruby on the tip. Small points of bright white light began to rise from the ice and wind, few at first, then increasing to several hundred thousand at a time... They slowly flowed through the air and into the ruby, which glowed vigorously...
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday April 29th, 2005
Duilin, spread his arms apart, and finished the demon energy ball. He narrowed his eyes, and tossed the energy ball at the Old Man.
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"Holy shit!" Rink yelled as Alpha Retan flue up into the air. "Is that...is that...him?" He asked, sounding frightened
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday April 29th, 2005
Haraldur smiled at the flash, and grabbed the vision's arm. It would cause a force to pull the real figure down towards the Earth, a force he would have to fight.
He held out list left arm, touching the wall. He concentrated, causing a ripping sound to be heard. The dimension exploded out of a hole as it shrunk to nothing.
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Behind Alpha Retan, a large hole appeared in the air, where the entire contents of the now destroyed dimension exploded out with great speed, including the characters. At the front was Haraldur charging forwards throwing a lightning bolt before him as he split in mid flight.
"You choose to be destroyed in this dimension. By doing that, you increase the probability of this world's destruction, as you would wish, but it makes no difference, for here, or anywhere else, I will destroy you."
He reassembled while still flying forward, throwing magma before him.
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The Great Prophet saw this and said, "Oh, shit."
He hides under a rock, and shields himself, in case of the worst.
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday April 30th, 2005
"(Editor: Censored)!" said Zeros' intelligently as he slid out of focus and reappeared near Ryu, who jumped in surprise.
"Thats Alpha Retan," he said as he his slid over towards Retan's figure, confirming Rink's question. Zeros' right hand glowed with a faint black aura as he watched for the right moment to strike Retan.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 30th, 2005
Duilin, followed Zeros' out and appeared next to him, Ryu and Rink.
"So, that's him..." Duilin said softly.
"Do you think you guys can defeat him?" Rink asked
"I sure as hell hope so." Duilin replied. He straighted his hand and lifted his arm half way up, demon energy began to flow around his arm, he looked up at Alpha Retan. And waited along with Zeros'
Rink nodded. "Well...good luck with that, I'm going to go over and hide under a rock with The Prophet, now." He said with a serious tone in his voice, he then flue off and sheiled himself under a rock...
Posted by: Trent on Saturday April 30th, 2005
The trio was flung out into the other dimension to find the real Alpha Retan, and everyone going in to strike.
"Should we bring 'em out?" asked Xenai.
"One moment," said Zion.
=== === ===
EW + ZW Ready!
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday April 30th, 2005
The old man spun around, ceasing to gather the white points of light, and thrust his staff before him, creating a translucent red shield which deflected the burst of magma.
"Heavens, child. Did I make you angry? But that begs the question, can something artificial have emotions?"
His wrinkled face contorted in a devilish smile.
That's right. Perfect. Show me more...
----
An explosion of red appeared far on the horizon.
"So it begins..."
"You orders, my Lord?"
"Full speed ahead."
Posted by: Trent on Saturday April 30th, 2005
"Ok, now! Eternity Weapon!"
The Eternity Weapon fell from the sky, landing in front of Zion.
"Zero Weapon!"
The Zero Weapon shot out of the ground, landing in front of Xenai.
=== === ===
EW + ZW ------ 3
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday April 30th, 2005
"You tell me."
Haraldur conjured two swords, one in each hand, each sheathed in furious energy. He pointed one at Alpha Retan, shooting a blue orb of energy straight at him. With the other, he turned the gorund below to large rising spikes, which detached from the ground and flew upwards, looking to impale the old man from below.
"Goodbye, earthly parent. You will be destroyed."
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As spikes began to rise around him, The Great Prophet screamed in fear, before rushing out from under the rock and flew to a high position away from the vertically moving projectiles.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday April 30th, 2005
"Now!" Duilin yelled. Seeing that Haraldur was attacking it would make a better probabilty of one of the attacks hitting. He then blasted a yellow bolt at Alpha Retan.
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday May 1st, 2005
A red orb surrounded the old man, deflecting the blue and yellow bursts of energy sent his way.
"You shouldn't attempt to do more than your fate deems, child. Why would you--- GAH!!"
The sharp pain in his leg snapped his attention. A sharp spike had penetrated his left thigh, which was now streaking with red blood... He slowly lowered his altitude as he recovered.
"Now you see... You've forced me to defend myself..."
Black lightning thundered around. The sky grew dim. The ice below began to crack...
His posture straightened as he brought his arms to his side, his cape blowing in the intense wind. Color returned to his decrepit face, his eyes glowing a bright crimson.
He addressed Haraldur in the voice of Melkoth:
"I have been destroyed many times, my son. Each time I learn from my mistakes. Each time I become stronger... Each time I become closer... No matter the outcome, this is a victory for me..."
A blinding flash glazed the eyes of all those present. As it faded, the outline of a scaly black dragon became apparent...
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The lieutenant's armor began to clang as it shook.
"W-What's th-that...?!"
Draven leaned far over the deck of the airship in disbelief, his breath fuming from the cold climate.
"That brazen fool... He let loose another one!!"
He turned around, his new cape flowing with the motion as he clenched his fist.
"He'll try to absorb it just like last time. And those idiots are just going to stand around and watch!"
He flipped around again and pointed at the spectacle in the distance.
"GO! Kill Ragnar!! Kill that dragon!! And kill any who stand in your way!!"
The force of nearly 25,000 wyvern riders, many of them atop advanced forms of the species, along with several hundred dark dragons, began to make a wide circle and surround the crater, with Draven's airship at the lead.
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday May 1st, 2005
"Amazeing..." Duilin said. He stared at the black dragon for awile. "Well let's see, we killed a Yetti, a Belroth, an army of zombies, a necrodragon, the Dark Empire and the spawns of hell. This shouldn't be to different from anything we haven't fought before."
Duilin looked at Zeros' "But how are we going this?"
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Rink steped out from his hideing spot and took on look at the dragon "Well I'll be sleeping in a pile of Vile Lizard shit..." He shook his head rapidly "Okay back behind the rock for me..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday May 1st, 2005
"Ah, so both my parents are here..."
Haraldur changed form without first splitting. He changed into a huge humanoid form of himself, but covered in armour and spikes, and weilding two huge swords in either hand.
One sword slashed at the Dragon, at it did so it left a trail of the blue energy it was sheathed with.
The other was thrust deep into the ground: he was so large that from 500 meters up, he could stick the sword, which was of normal size relative to his body, into the ground. He cut through the deep crust of the Earth, letting magma rise up as from a Geyser, leaving a roaring sound as it rose.
Posted by: Trent on Sunday May 1st, 2005
Xenai looked in the direction of the wyvern riders, then up at Zero Weapon. "Take care of 'em."
A huge sword appeared in Zero Weapon's hand, and it started to circle around the crater, taking out the Wyvern riders.
Zion looked at the transformed Alpha Retan. "Get him."
Eternity Weapon rushed forward at the dragon, pulling its fist back and sending it forward at its head upon coming in range.
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EW + ZW ---- 2
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday May 1st, 2005
Zeros' flipped Ellenna over on his back, making her wrap her arms around his neck and her feet around his chest. He then used spells to affix them to his body, but made sure he still had full movement from his wings, legs and arms.
The black glow that appeared around his right hand disappeared briefly before a glowing white flame of chi appeared, small black tendrils flying from the flame. He also dodged the land spears as they came up towards him, using his wings to manuver himself expertly.
When he stopped, the flame around his right hand now streched across his whole arm, burning a blinding white light while black embers flew from the white flame.
He stood there, silently flying and dodging while the white flame of chi grew stronger and the black embers started to dance in the air as they gained more power from the ambient chi that lingered in the air and the area.
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Ryu dodged despretly as they earth spikes began to come up from the ground. He winced in pain as one of the spikes scratched his right leg, causing it to flow blood. His metal limbs were starting to become sluggish as well, his strength draining.
He started breathing albeit more heavily as he reached the Trio's position.
"Damn spikes..." he murmured under his breath as he unsheathed his dragon katana's, the ruby on in his left hand, the sapphire one in his right. He held them at his sides loosely as he turned to face the wyvern rides head on.
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday May 2nd, 2005
Duilin, continued to hover in the air. He raised both arms and began to charge a large orb yellow/orange demon energy. He prepared it for Alpha Retan. He shifted his head around. Rink's still cowareing around...Something tells me we might even need his help.
He fouces back on his target, and continues chargeing his attack.
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday May 2nd, 2005
(Grand Finale time! Chapter 5 ends in 10 days.)
"I am Alpha Retan, heir of the universe. Foolish mortals, your insignificant struggles mean nothing..."
The dragon blocked the blue blade with his left arm, slightly denting his armor like scales. The magma did not seem to effect him, but the Eternity Weapon smacked him dead in the temple. He road threateningly, spinning around and sending his long spiked tail towards the Eternity Weapon's chest. At the same time, he spewed forth a stream of shadow energy at Haraldur from his gaping mouth...
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The wyverns began to swarm the mammoth Zero Weapon like bees, hundreds of them clawing at its thick armor. Several of them took note of Ryu and began to dive bomb him, spewing forth flame and ice.
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The few wyvern riders that made it close to Haraldur and the black dragon held off in fear, waiting for more allies to attack with.
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"Move in close and fire at will! I'm going in."
"But, sir...!"
Draven dove off of the deck of the airship, a crimson aura engulfing him after he fell a few hundred feet. He began to fly at a low altitude straight for the chaos ahead...
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday May 3rd, 2005
Ryu looked towards the sky and swore, dodging expertly as a stream of flame flew past him. He spun around wildly and jumped into the air, launching several ki charged blades from his sword tips and dodging the spew of ice and flames.
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The wyvern's tried to move out of the way, but they couldn't. Several had either one or two of the dragon's wings cut off, someone even had thier heads cut off, while other killed both the dragon and the rider.
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Zeros' glanced down at his hand and smirked. His while arm was now enveloped in a white flame of chi, burning brightly, while black embers crackled. He looked towards the dragon and nodded to himself and phased out, reappearing right near the dragon's neck, behind the head.
He lifted his hand up and pointed it towards the dragon's neck, like a claw posed to strike. When he fired the shadow energy at Haraldur, he snapped his wrist and plunged his hand towards the dragon's neck.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday May 3rd, 2005
What? Draven's here? Looks like this is going to be a three way war... Duilin thought. He then finished the energy orb "This better hit!" He tossed the demon energy orb. The orange/yellow orb flew like a rocket at Alpha Retan.
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Rink peeked up over the rock. "I'm sick of hideing! Enough of this! I'm going kick some ass!"
Rink flies off, and blasts a series of fireballs at the wyverns swarming around. "Hiiayaa!!"
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday May 3rd, 2005
Haraldur looked on with interest at the shadow energy flew towards him, and smiled when it hit him. He seemed unaffected, but, somehow, he looked to be slightly larger.
He looked towards the wyvyrns, and smiled as if recollecting a sweet childhood memory. He recalled the feat of destruction Ragnar had done when he had seperated the electrons from the atoms of the bodies of the thousands of Viking mages, and then let their ionised and disintegrating bodies, get huge electric shocks as electrons came in from all sides orbiting the nuclei again, and releasing enough energy to form a fireball. He did the same to the Dragon, and to the wyvyrns. The wyvyrns quickly exploded because of this.
Posted by: Trent on Tuesday May 3rd, 2005
"Our guys need energy!" said Zion.
"Anyone willing to donate to the cause of beating the shit out of Retan using mechanic-esque demons, please do so!" said Xenai.
The Eternity Weapon took the hit, sending it to the ground, but it promply jumped to his feet, unleashing two beams from its hands that spiraled together toward Retan.
The Zero Weapon gave a monstrous roar as it emitted a large wave of energy from itself, extremely concentrated, but only reached as far as where the wyvern riders were. Hopefully, this would take care of them.
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EW + ZW -- 1
//Heh, are people allowed to donate energy to keep them out longer? They are seperate entities, and thus, will require seperate donations.
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday May 3rd, 2005
(Keep 'em out as long as it seems practical in the story.)
(Too many wyverns... you guys control them!)
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The dragon roared in pain as he was slammed with the multiple attacks. He stretched his head skywards as the multicolored explosions from the various attackers ensued around him, then plummeted to the ground, cracking the already battle ravaged ice.
For a brief second, it almost seemed as if it were all over.
But his head propped up...
"Power... Brute strength... Something I have yet to attain... But I have something far greater..."
The beast scampered to all fours, spreading his wings out. His body began to deform, boney spikes began jutting out of his joints, and his skin seemed to melt off in some locations...
He roared again, but this time it was much louder, distorted and less animal sounding. It was like a gust of wind, but it burned like acid, blasting all those around him...
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Before drawing too near, Draven shielded his eyes from the explosions and created a barrier to repell the intense sound waves, but even he was repelled several feet.
He smirked for a moment, lost in thought, then after checking his surroundings, shot straight up in the air so that he was directly above the ensuing battle. From behind his back, he withdrew an ancient book, visibly worn and adorned with skull like carvings on the outer cover. He flipped quickly through the pages and, after finding his spot, began to chant passages from the tome under his breath as he brought his right hand up to the sky above...
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday May 4th, 2005
Haraldur put his hand in front of him, cutting the blast in front of him in two, causing it go around him. Spotting Draven with the book, he tossed a few small fireballs, to try to incinerate the tome.
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday May 4th, 2005
Duilin, was blown back spinning around in the air. He used his demon energy to help him stay stable.
Rink was blown away, and crashed into the ground.
"Rink!" Duilin yelled "Are you allright?!"
Rink lifted his right arm, and gave a thumbs up and his arm crashed back down into the ground. He was breathing deeply, he was in much pain.
"He'll live.." Duilin muddered. Suddenly two wyverns flue at him. Once swung it's claw at Duilin's side. He grabed the cut, and blasted a fire ball at it, warning it off. The other one, grabed Duilin, and flew off with him. It's neck lowerd and it prepared to bite Duilin's head. Duilin's arms were in a lock, so he couldn't raise them to blast it's head, yet he wasn't going to give up. He blasted energy and flame, causesing an explotion, killing the wyvern. Duilin was only harmed minorly.
The first wyvern dove down at him, screeching. He grabed the wyvern by the neck, and tossed it, down onto the ground. It hit the icey below with a lowd thud, and Duilin, charged energy and blasted it at the wyvern, killing it.
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday May 4th, 2005
Zeros' held out his hand, which was alight with black flame and caused the attack to rebound, sending it towards Retan. He unsheathed his sword with a flourish and transformed it and sent a wave of pure white flame with black embers, lightning crackling, speeding towards Retan.
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Ryu flared up his cloak and blocked the attack. He dodged as one wyvern rider tried to spear him. He jumped and slashed, taking the neck of the wyvern and landed gracefully.
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday May 4th, 2005
The dragon hissed as he sprouted two more heads, but these were merely skulls and uncovered with skin. The entire body of the beast was becoming more deformed, his legs and claws much longer than before.
He took Zeros' blast head on, causing him to stubble, but not quite lose his balance. The newly formed left head retaliated by opening its mouth and spewing forth a stream of blue flame at the winged one. The other two heads were focused on Haraldur, and the dragon leapt towards the oversized man, swinging down a massive right claw...
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Draven twisted his body so that his left shoulder faced the oncoming fireballs, which one of them struck, displacing his spot in the air slightly.
Blast, he knows what I'm up to...
A small dark orb appeared above his raised hand. It swelled a bit before burning a bright red...
Draven's version of Dark Emperor Retan's special!
Crimson-Death Annihilation Attack (CDAA): 10%
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday May 5th, 2005
"Holy shit!" Duilin yelled. As he watched the dragon grew two extra heads.
He saw Draven chargeing up some type of an attack. He flew towards him, and stoped a few feet away.
"Well, well, well, look who bothered to show up." Duilin smirked "What's this, you're up to? Listen, Haraldur is just trying to avenge himself, and frankly there is nothing wrong with it, we have the Light with us, so there will be no harm done. He's accually saveing the worll from monster! And I will not let you screw this up!"
He began charge demon energy, and craft another orb...
//Yeah, I'm accually expecting for Wyverns or the ship to shoot at Duilin or something. I just want Duilin into serious play here, since it's the final battle.//
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday May 5th, 2005
Haraldur moved one of the swords up towards the claw to stop it, and hopefully cut it off. With the other he stabbed towards Alpha Retan.
He smirked when he fully realised Draven's intention: if he could keep the monster here, then it would be in the area when the explosion happened. So would he, and both would perish with the rest of the world.
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday May 5th, 2005
Zeros' grabbed the flame out of the air, a hiss and the smell of burning flesh was soon in the air. He lobbed the fireball back at the dragon and disappeared and re-appeared near the right most head. He brought down his huge sword swiftly, glowing with a white fire.
Posted by: Trent on Thursday May 5th, 2005
//Very well...
Some kind of ethereal force was causing the weapons to fight past thir normal time limit...
Zero Weapon looked at Draven. Xenai gave the order. "Kick his ass!" Zero Weapon flew over to him, rasing its fists up, and bringing them down toward Draven's head.
Eternity Weapon was very focused on Alpha Retan. Zion's body glowed with light, as did that of Eternity Weapon. The two bodies united, and Ultima Eternity was formed. It brandished its sword, made of pure light energy, at Retan. "Let's go!"
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Ultima Eternity ∞
Zero Weapon ∞
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday May 5th, 2005
//Trent, can't you see, you're interfering between a fight between Duilin and Draven?//
"Get it out of the way Xenai!" Duilin commanded, as the Zero Weapon charged at Draven. "It's blocking my aim!" He yells, as he continues to charge the orb.
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Rink weakly got back to his feet. He walked along the ground, moveing threw a feild of dead wyverns. "Why did I ever come to this world...There is nothing here but death. Hell is even nicer then this."
He looked up at Duilin. Rink was preety far away from everyone. "Well, I did help him out alot...But he's becomeing more, demon-esk. More, evil...So, why do I feal guilty about it."
He sighed "Because of me, Duilin might even have his demon side take over. It happened to his father."
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday May 5th, 2005
Haraldur's blade cut cleanly through the claw, which the dragon drew back quickly so as to parry the second blade. At the same time, the white flame of Zeros' sword tore through the right skull, causing it to disintegrate along with half of the bony neck.
The two remaining heads hissed in synchronized fury. Black tendrils of energy and exposed red muscle wrapped around the remnants of the third neck, and very quickly two more skinless dragon heads emerged from the wound. The now four headed dragon roared to the sky, sending several dozen large spikes of a size capable of impaling a man out from its body in all directions to repel its attackers...
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Draven's eyes squinted in rage.
"Avenge? Save the world? Are you that blind? Utter foolishness. If you wish to stand in my way, then I'll disintegrate you, gnat."
Having memorized the repetitive incantations, Draven tossed the book aside and pointed two fingers of his now free left hand at Duilin.
But before he could do a thing, the massive fist of the Zero Weapon came slamming down upon him, sending him crashing into the ground. The orb he had been charging eerily remained in place in the air...
Draven darted out of the miniature crater he had be cast into burning with rage.
"XENAI!!"
He shot right up to the gigantic weapon's chest and brought back his burning right fist.
"Worthless toys!"
He let forth a blazingly fast punch that bored right through the thick outer armor plate. With his fist inside, he opened his palm and let loose an explosive blast of crimson energy...
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Due to broken concentration, the CDAA fades!
CDAA: 5%
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday May 6th, 2005
Ryu aburtly stops fighting the wyvern's and and quickly ran over towards Rink, jumping past dead wyvern corpses and dodging stray bits of magic. He stops near Rink and crouches down to his height, both of his sword still in hand, dripping with blood.
"Don't worry Rink. Zeros' can use some spells to lock away a portion of Duilins power till he trains to harness the demon energy's powers bette," he tried to reassured the small imp. "He won't become like his father," he dropped his voice to a low whisper, "the same thing happened to Zeros' father when he joined Qor. He went insane with the demon power Qor gave him, resulting in his own death. Qor visited Zeros' several times through his thousand years, but each time he was beat back.
So don't worry," he said patting the imp on the shoulder.
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Zeros' leaned to the left as the one of the heads came his way. One of the spikes grazed Zero's left side, causing him to hiss in pain. He expertly dodged the spikes while parrying or dodging the claw strikes or bites.
"How the hell do we kill this thing!" he yelled out towards Draven and Haraldur. He had met dragon's several time — even demon and zombie dragon's — but they were smaller then this one and didn't have multiple heads and regenitive powers — except the zombie dragon.
He quickly parried the next bite attack the thrust his other hand forwards, a small black sphere the size of a bastket ball with arc's of white tendrils, flew towards the dragon's incoming paw.
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday May 6th, 2005
"Yeah, I supose that's true. Also, I've been haveing trouble senceing Qor's power..." Rink replied "I think...Nevina might have been sucessfull in defeating Qor..." Rink rubbed his chin, and then relized something and sighed "Duilin will be upset to hear this...But I belive Nevina must have also died. Well, that isn't important. We just need to worry about the dragon and these damn wyverns!" "Let's get to work!"
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday May 6th, 2005
"You are going to have to try harder than that, old man.
Haraldur deflects the spikes coming his way, causing them to embed themselves into the ground below.
Seeing the CDAA, he wondered what would happen if it suffered an impact. He reach towards it, and it moved towards him. It circled him while accelerating, before being catipulted at huge velocity towards the dragon. This would be interesting...
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday May 6th, 2005
Ryu glanced warily at Rink and nodded. He jumped back at the wyvern's, his katana's flashing as wyvern's fell to his blades. Blood stained his already crimson cape and black cloak. His metal and human hands were stained red and his sword were glowing an errie crimson color.
Ryu jumped back and swept his sword behind him and threw all his weight forwards on his sword. Several red crescent blades made of blood flew towards the wyvern's. Some managed to dodge, but others fell quickly.
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday May 6th, 2005
The only 5% complete spell slammed into the dragon's side with a muffled explosion, and without much effect... The dragon's rage was building, and he swatted at Zeros' attack, knocking it wildly off course.
In retaliation, he extended all four of his heads with gaping mouths, one pointed at Zeros', one at Zion/Eternity, and two at Haraldur. He held this position for a moment before it became evident what he was doing as the mouths lit with fire. A continuous beam fired from each mouth at each target, circling in vibrant colors through each element. The blast was so intense that it even pushed the mighty body of the dragon back as he fired...
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Draven shot straight back from his attack, which had built up so much smoke he could not see the damage done to his target. He turned and shot upwards, trying to find a quieter spot to begin casting his spell again.
He spoke to Zeros' telepathically once more:
"I will liquidate them both in one fell swoop. Keep these peons off me!"
He was much higher now, and directly overhead the dragon. He lifted both hands above his head and concentrated intensely. Another orb appeared as before, but was growing faster...
CDAA: 20%
Posted by: Trent on Friday May 6th, 2005
//Heh. Sorry, DM.
//Blah! Retan attacked Zion, didn't see it...
The Zero Weapon let out a painful roar as Draven unleashed his energy inside it. It was flung backwards, and put on the ground... It wasn't moving. "What the hell!?" said Xenai.
Zion was poised to charge, but he was stopped from doing so when he went to block the oncoming assult of fire that was targeted at him. "Ugh!" The attack still managed to put him on the ground, but he rolled backwards to his feet.
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Ultima Eternity ∞
Zero Weapon (Near incapacitation!) ∞
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday May 7th, 2005
Zeros' immediately sheathed his sword and grabbed the blast heading towards him, reinforcing his hands with ki and magic. As the beam slammed into him, he was pushed back several dozen meters. He grunted in effort. The beam held steady before Zeros' managed to start pushing against it. The beam of magic started to be pushed back slowly, Zeros' beating his wings wildly.
He roared and flung the beam of magic directly at Draven's CDAA, hoping to combine the beam of magic and the CDAA together.
Ryu, Rink, Zion, Xenai, Tsu, Duilin; leave Draven alone. The attacks he's charging is similiar to Retan's MDAA. He's going to use it against the dragon and Haraldur. He mentally said to the said people. Zeros' pulled his sword from its scabbard and transformed it, but this time it was different.
Instead of the rotting flesh smell and sickly black color of rotting flesh, the sword was shining with an ethernal light. The sword didn't become longer, but instead of a thin katana, it became large, wider (think Inuyasha's Tetsugia). The hilt transformed into a long mane of golden fur, reaching past the hilt and trailing down for another foot.
Zeros' features also started to change. His hair slowly became changed from platinum silver to a ethernal white. His black wings started to shift in colors, going from midnight black to a bright white with the tips of the feathers becoming gold. His clothes stayed the same; thought his muscles seemed to almost unnoticable decrease in size as his frame became leaner and more athletic.
//Right know, Zeros' let his god side take over. He basically blocked all his demon blood, effectively making himself full god. He can reactivate the flood flow at anytime. He can also do this with his demon form also.\\
Zeros' flapped his newly white wings and rushed towards the dragon with greater speed, almost twice as fast in his half-demon/half-god mode. He disappeared and reappeared in front of the dragon heads. The distance covered between the two points was almost 100 meters.
With his greater speed, he slashed downwards with his sword, a sonic boom echoing in his wake, as five crescent blades of holy energy streaked towards the dragon.
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Ryu nodded and continued fighting the wyvern's, dodging and weaving inbetween attacks, trying to dodge as many as he could.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday May 7th, 2005
One of the beams caught Haraldur's left shoulder, but he managed tom dodge in time to not sustain much damage. He ducked underneath and came up under the necks of the two heads. With his two swords, he slashed towards them to sever the heads.
He put his left sword away in its scabbard, and a ball of swirling dark multicoloured light appeared in his left palm: bitter death anihilation attack, which would grow at an exponential rate, doubling each time.
BDAA: 7%
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday May 7th, 2005
Zeros' looked down at Haraldur and rolled his eyes.
"What's with you guys and attacks that can destroy the world and everyone in it?" he asked curiously.
Posted by: Trent on Saturday May 7th, 2005
//Edited previous post.
Zion panted heavily, and then charged. Upon coming in range, he executed that flurry of slashes that he intended to do earlier.
Zero Weapon slowly got to its feet, and just stood there, waiting for orders from a confused Xenai. "Oh, jeez... Who to attack?" Zero Weapon twitched a bit, indicating its low vital force.
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Ultima Eternity [OK]
Zero Weapon [Low]
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday May 7th, 2005
Duilin narrowed his eyes as he resived Zeros' message. "Whatever..."
The energy orb was at huge size, about 20 feet in diameter. He then looked at Draven, a grined, he faked the move, makeing it seem like Draven was the target, yet he tossed it at the Dragon.
I still can't trust Draven, but I supose we are going to have to need him.
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"Yeah, I'll leave Draven alone," Rink said, as he resived Zeros' message "but I'm not going to be so nice to these damn wyverns!"
He glided up into the air, and created a mini Demon Flame attack, and tossed it at a wyvern's wing, causeing it to crash into another wyvern causeing them to both crash down into the ground and smash threw the ice.
"Whoa! Did you that!" Rink yelled in pride, makeing his first wyvern kill
//I'm aware in post I clearly stated he rapidly fired flame at a bunch, yet I never said that killed them//
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday May 7th, 2005
(No time today, so I'll have to make this short.)
Haraldur managed to sever another one of the heads, but before the dragon could retaliate, four of the five blades of energy from Zeros' attack embedded themselves in the dragon, crippling it as it collapsed under its own weight as Duilin's attack hit and Zion struck his blows...
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The energy beam augmented Draven's orb, as it did The Dark Emperor's before. Red bolt of lighting cracked about the sky as the clouds turned dark and parted... The crimson orb was approaching 20 feet in diameter.
CDAA: 45%
(Heh... looks like I'm starting a trend...)
Posted by: Trent on Saturday May 7th, 2005
"Argh! Draven, you're not finishing that, you bastard!" Xenai's body glowed white, as did the Zero Weapon. They united, and Omega Zero was formed. This didn't really help Zero Weapon's condition, though.
Zion jumped back a couple of feet, waiting for Retan's next move.
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Ultima Eternity [OK]
Omega Zero [Low]
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday May 8th, 2005
Zeros' faded forwards and reappeared under the dragon's wing. He sheathed his sword and once again shifted forms.
His hair started to darken rapidly, flashing from white to silver to grey and finally to midnight black. His wings flashed in colors too and changed from pure white to an endless color of black, blood right outlining each individual feather, making them errie to look at. His frame grew out in size, expanding his muscles, making him twice as strong as his half-demon form, but his speed decreased.
Instead of the sparkling emerald that his eyes usually held, they were now a crimson red. He threw his hands into the air and extended his fingers like claws. A endless black aura of black sprung from each hand, crackling with crimson lightning. He plunged his hands into the dragon's wing, right where the joint connected to the main body. Blood sprouted from the wound, coating his arms in the crimson liquid.
He grabbed the bone of the dragon's wing in his right hand and with his left hand, grabbed the side of the wing. He clentched his right hand against the bone of the dragon's wing joint and pulled with all his might. With his left hand, he gained a steady hold and dug his fingers into the wing, sprouting more blood to flow. He pulled with all his might with his left hand also.
//What Zeros' is trying to do is rip off the dragon's wing by assuming his full demon form, which is twice as strong as his half-demon/half-god, but also slower. He also gained more ki while his god form gained more magic. If Zeros' is successful in ripping off the dragon's wing, just let him hold it. If not, have him simply knocked away.\\
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Ryu felt a flash of power and looked up towards Zeros' who was trying to pull the dragon's wing off. He winced. He dodged another wyvern spear, but one of the others grazed his metal arm in the elbow joint. Instead of the spear pulling back, it broke off.
Ryu was startled when he felt his arm break and stop working. He cursed under his breath and sheathed both sword quickly and dodged.
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday May 8th, 2005
Haraldur hovers back a bit, and his sword lengthens. It is now longer than the dragon. He slashes the sword downwards, hoping to slice Alpha Retan in half.
BDAA: 14%
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday May 8th, 2005
The dragon pulled back from Zeros' and the wing became undone. This same motion moved him away from Haraldur's slash as it sunk into the ground. Tendrils of darkness surrounded his wounds, forming two more heads from the severed one. Two more wings began to grow from the gaping socket, although they were quite crooked and looked unsuitable for flight due to their dissymmetry.
The dragon seemed to be getting a bit sluggish in his distorted body...
Zeros' was right in the dragon's face(s) as he returned to his feet. All five of the heads lashed out for him, two surrounding him from each side and one in the middle...
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"Not long now..."
Draven smirked in the crimson aura of his spell. The massive sphere, now over 40 feet in diameter, was alternating from deep black to bright vermilion as he combined the shadow elemental spell with his own energy...
CDAA: 65%
Posted by: Trent on Sunday May 8th, 2005
Zion charged in from behind and slashed horizontally with all his might, aiming to cut off all of Retan's heads.
Xenai nonchalantly walked up to Draven and his pretty ball. The merged forms of the weapons, as a reminder, were not that big. Their users simply appeared to be wearing their weapons as armor. He looked up at the ball, floated up, and shoved his hand in. It didn't hurt so much... Zero Weapon was very much of the shadow element. He did however, feel the burning of the fire element, and tried his best to tough it. "I'll be taking that now." Xenai attempted to suck up the energy to improve his condition, and to detract from the ball's completion.
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Ultima Eternity [OK]
Omega Zero [Low]
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday May 8th, 2005
Duilin, raised his arm. Let's see if this will work!
He twirled his arm around, and created a circle of energy. He then lowered his arm down, and used his other hand, to craft it into the blade. He basically did it the same way he crafted the orbs, but he made it a different shape.
He had just made an energy blade, he wasn't sure if it would last more then one hit, but it was worth a try. He dove at Alpha Retan and atempted to trust the energy blade into the dragon's chest.
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Rink, dodges a wyvern diveing down at him. It smacks down into the ground smashing threw the ice again. He the points up at the dragon "I think they might kill it soon!" He yelled.
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday May 8th, 2005
BDAA: 28%
Realising that now his anihilation attack was at quarter strength, he thought it might now be time to make use of it.
Haraldur shrunk to his normal size, and sped towards and above the dragon, landing on its back. With his now shrunk sword, he sliced into the dragon's back, making a hole with flaps of skin. He put the orb into the hole, and then put the flaps of skin back on top. He seared them with a blast of fire, causing the bits of skin to fuse, keeping the orb trapped in the whole, and rising its' potency to 37%. He jumped off and into the air, and fired an energy down, trying to hit the area of charred flesh.
He telepathed to Zeros': I advise that you get out of there, since I might not miss him.
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday May 8th, 2005
Zeros' barely dodges two of the heads on each side. The one going towards his middle grazes his chest, causing his shirt to rip in half and show his scarred, muscled body. He quickly feinted downwards, using the wing as a shield to block the remaining heads.
He flips backwards in the air and delivers a horse kick to the dragon's wing he pulled off. The wing bends in the middle and the two heads are knocked for a loop. Zeros' quickly shifts forms to his half-demon, ignoring the gash across his chest.
He fades backwards and began to move towards Xenai. He reappeared behind Xenai and forceably removes him from the CDAA, pulling him back from the scruff of his neck. He moves backwards quickly and whispers fiercely in his ear,
"Listen!" he hissed. "We need Draven to kill that damn dragon. Leave his CDAA alone. If you need energy, here," he said, using his free hand to conjure a ball of pure energy using his magic in front of Xenai. He removes his hand from his neck and turns around and uses his wings to break the sound barrier, moving about 500 meters away from the battle field and pulls Ellenna off his back, who is maraculiously unhurt.
He drops her from his hands and murmurs a spell under his breath, causing Ellenna to raised back to his height and float, an invisible shield holding her in the air. He turns around and uses his wings to return to the battle field in seconds, unsheathing his sword.
Posted by: Trent on Sunday May 8th, 2005
//Aren't we in some super-icy area or something? If so...
Xenai flinched, and looked at Zeros'. "Yeah, but haven't you considered that just maybe this super-icy place might be an ice cap? I don't know where the hell we are, and the last time one of these annihilation attacks were used, it wiped out everything that was there, and more for about 100 miles, I'd say!"
He grabbed the energy, and it shrunk to nothing as he took it in. "...Thanks."
=== === ===
Ultima Eternity [OK]
Omega Zero [OK]
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday May 9th, 2005
(Most creative attack award: Haraldur. Heh...)
Due to their proximity, Zion succeeded in lopping off two of the dragon's heads at once. The open wounds began the regeneration process, but Duilin's sudden blade in his chest distracted the dragon and delayed the heads from reforming as well as allowed Haraldur to perform his surgical incision...
It was too late when the dragon realized the situation. Haraldur's blast connected with the orb of energy in his back... and exploded...
The dragon literally blew apart. A huge gaping hole tore across his back, flapping the skin and wings from his back around the front, even with his chest. Lacking a spinal chord, what was left of the dragon collapsed painfully...
The crimson eyes of the three remaining heads flickered dimly on the cracked ice...
"For me... another beginning... For you... the end looms..."
----
Draven flashed Xenai the dirtiest of looks, as if to say, "You're dead."
The sphere continued to grow, despite the slight interruption in its casting. Draven noted the opportune moment to strike was now... Blast, just a few more seconds...
CDAA: 80%
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday May 10th, 2005
Zeros' realized the moment now. He connected his mind with Zion, Tsu, Xenai, Duilin, Rink and Ryu: It's time to go...now! He said mentally. He sheathed his sword and looked down at the badly wounded dragon. He shook his head in disgust and transformed to his full god body. His increased speed helped him.
He grabbed Ryu by the waist and doged the remaining wyvern's and flew towards Rink's position. He grabbed his by the waist also and tucked him under his arm. He then faded and flew towards where he left Ellenna. He carefully pulled her out of the air and started to fly as fast as he could in the opposite direction of Draven.
While he was flying though, a errie white glow encompased the whole ice island and several miles around it. Zeros' was murmuring under his breath, waiting for Draven to cast his CDAA. His plan was to block the flow of water that would come when the CDAA his the icecaps.
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday May 10th, 2005
The Great Prophet got back onto the boat, and headed southwards.
______________________________________________________________
Haraldur flew south, with a look of purpose on his face.
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday May 10th, 2005
Duilin, hovered in the air for awile.
"Well I guess that anwsers that." He sighed, and then flue off following Zeros'.
Posted by: Trent on Tuesday May 10th, 2005
"Damn!" Xenai took off, remaining merged to retain full speed. He flew off in Zeros' direction. Zion grabbed Tsu and followed, remaining merged as well.
Tsu was quite angered. "What are we doing!? What about Draven?!"
Zion looked down at him. "There's nothing we can do."
"Can't we destroy Draven, or at least prevent the succession of his attack?"
"I wouldn't bank on it. Keep quiet."
=== === ===
Ultima Eternity [OK]
Omega Zero [OK]
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday May 10th, 2005
Zeros' let go of Rink and used his ki to keep Ryu afloat beside him. He fell back towards the Trio. He still held Ellenna in his arm's though.
"Don't worry. The world won't be destroyed by his attack. If you look back towards the area," he said, pointing towards the ice caps, "you can see a ethernal white glow around the area. Once his spell activates and destroys the dragon, that spell will activate. Its called Fusegu Ankokujidai (to protect the Dark Ages); it forms a barrier of earth and rocks hundreds of miles tall and hundreds of miles wide (this spell forms the Grand Canyon. Muhahahahah...)," he said.
"This will keep the access water from overflowing into the Great Ocean's," he explained. "The only problem is it takes almost all of my magic to use this attack. If I start to weaken, then that means the spell was successful; if not, the spell wasn;t successful. We'll just have to wait and see," he said patiently while flying in his god form (this form gives Zeros' twice as muh magic and speed, but less ki and muscle)
Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday May 11th, 2005
Rink flue off towards Duilin. "You seemed preety worried, when I almost died there." Rink smirked at Duilin
"Heh, yeah, maybe a little." He replied. He laughed and then, grabed ahold of the imp, since Rink couldnt fly at high speeds for very long.
"Well I was worried to, enspecially when you got alittle angry up there, I thought you were gonna go all, demon and rampage on everyone."
"Hahaha, no not quite. When, I made that blade, it was like I was useing, humen energy or something. I think I can sucessfully balance my humen and demon now." He nodded "But that's not the worry now, the worry is that Zeros' spell will work. But I'm sure it will, he hasn't failed much attacks."
"So, will Draven make it out. Or will this be the end of him?" Rink asked Zeros'
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday May 11th, 2005
Zeros' shrugged.
"It doesn't matter. He won't be destroyed by his own attack. As for my spell, if it works, were safe; if not, the world's flooded," he said, shrugging.
"But..." Ryu started.
"Don't worry," he said, stopping Ryu's comment. "With our combined power, we could burn all the excess water into steam. We'd be extremely weak after it though. I don't recommend it."
Posted by: Trent on Wednesday May 11th, 2005
"I'm just not sure that we should go about this so nonchalantly," said Tsu. "Draven's not exactly weak. If he has enough energy, he could break through your spell..."
"Yeah, he's got a point," said Xenai. "But we'll take care of it when it comes."
=== === ===
Ultima Eternity [OK]
Omega Zero [OK]
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday May 11th, 2005
Draven scowled as Haraldur began to move away.
Blast... I must catch him in the explosion...
The sphere swelled to over 100 feet in diameter. It throbbed with crimson flame and darkness... it could grow no more. Lightning cracked around. The spell was complete...
He arched his back and strained his arms, beginning to pull the nearly unmanageable energy downward.
"Say goodbye!!"
The sphere fell forward over his head and plummeted towards the earth. Without checking to see if his aim was straight (it wouldn't matter anyway) he shot off at full speed perpendicular to the line of flight of the other warriors, knowing all too well what was seconds away...
The dragon lifted one of his heads as the sky above was replaced with a bright crimson...
In an instant, a pillar of flame shot straight through the bottom of the atmosphere and straight down thousands of feet trough the ice. The pillar expanded outwards in all directions, breaking the sound barrier as mountains of ice lifted into the sky and disintegrated into nothing...
Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday May 12th, 2005
As he crossed the boundary of Zeros' spell, Haraldur saw that behind him a wall of earth and rock was forming. He stuck his hands into the wall, causing an invisible barrier to appear a few meters on the other side. He took half the blast from the exploding fireball before continuing southwards. Haraldur smiled that there would still be people of such power when he left.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday May 12th, 2005
Duilin, saw the explotion come and Haraldur, practiclly aborb most of it. Yet some flame still flue by...
"That guy is freakishly powerfull...." Duilin said
Rink, had a tight death grip onto Duilin's arm, as he was scared from the shockingly huge explotion.
"Umm...uhhh...Ma-ma-maybe we should go..." Rink squeeked
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday May 12th, 2005
(Let's end this, say, this Sunday.)
Outward and outward the expanding wall of flame raged, pulverizing the arctic north. A tidal wave appeared in front of the wall as if the ocean were trying to escape the blast. Draven flew madly just before it, a tiny spec compared to the destruction he had caused.
After expanding in all directions for several miles, Zeros' barrier began to take effect, weakening it substantially, but not entirely. The flame broke past the protected region in a weakened state, now just skimming the surface of the planet rather than uprooting it...
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday May 12th, 2005
Zeros' faltered in his flying substantially and began to fall. He fell for about 100 meters before finally regaining his footing and flying back up towards the others level, breathing heavily.
"D-D-Damnit..." he gasped. "T-T-That spell was powerful...." he sighed audiably and began to slow down, falling behind the group while still carrying Ellenna.
"D-Damn Draven..." he looked down an spotted a small island with lots of tree cover. Let's rest down there.... I need to recover.... that barrier spell almost used all my magical energy.... the only thing I can do is wait for it to regenrate, considering only Duilin has demonic magical energy, but he wouldn't have even half my full capacity.... no Offense Duilin, but you have more alot more ki then magic. he said telepathically to his copanions, pointed down towards the small island.
He slowly guided himself and Ryu towards the island. Once he was right above it, he folded his wings inwards and began to drop at tremendous speeds. When he hit the small island in the middle of a clearing, the ground cracked and a crater about 10 feet deep formed, a spider-web of cracks forming outwards as he landed.
He jumped out of the crater and put Ellenna down, leaning on a tree. He sighed in relief and fell onto his back while Ryu landed next to him, sitting in a mediative position.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday May 12th, 2005
Duilin, swooped down on the island, letting go of Rink, letting the imp fly down and sat in a tree. Duilin stat down next to Zeros' on the opisate side of Kami-Ryu.
"I wonder if the girl will wake up, she's been asleep more then she has been awake." Rink laughed. He created a small fireball, and balanced on his pointer finger, and the flame began to spin around, and he looked deep into the fire, as if it was showing something...
"You going to be allright Zeros'?" Duilin asked
Posted by: Trent on Thursday May 12th, 2005
The trio flew onto the island, but Zion and Xenai remained merged. Was there anything to remain merged for? The end was nigh. There wasn't any need to keep the weapons out, let alone merged.
...Or was there?
...Most likely not...
...But one can never be too careful...
Mugen Seijin floated a very safe distance above the destruction. "Is that it? That can't be it."
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday May 13th, 2005
The flame carried on for a while longer before it fizzled out. The explosion at the pole had caused the planet to become unstable, and earthquakes spread across the globe. Masses of land began to rise from the sea while parts of the ones that remained began to sink...
Realizing he was totally exhausted, Draven landed on one of these newly sprouted islands-- just a slab of rock and seaweed, leaning heavily on a boulder as he tried to catch his breath...
That other fiend... is he still alive? Draven was too tired to scan the horizon for Haraldur...
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday May 13th, 2005
"I'll be fine..." he said, shaking his head. "I need to recover my magic power though.... I'll be fine in awhile...." he murmured. "If I didn't use that spell, the world wouldn't be here, more then likely. Midgard is already unstable do to the emense magical power Draven used in his attack. Another attack of that magnitude will completely destroy the world.... maybe even this galaxy...." he said mostly to himself.
(When Zeros' is at full power, he can open portal's and jump to other multiverses. It's like this: there would be this world where Retan used the MDAA, but there would be another universe where Retan never used the MDAA and Romme was still standing; or there would be another where Iduran's still alive and the Dark Empire never existed.)
"Is Haraldur still alive?" asked Ryu questonabily. Zeros' sighed and nodded.
"He's alot harder to take out then we thought.... I need to be at my full power and I can take him down by myself.... but right know, I'm weak.... ki will only do so much damage to Haraldur.... I might have to call on some of my more extreme spells to banish him.... Haraldur will never truely be killed.... he's not human enough...." he said.
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday May 13th, 2005
Haraldur reached the centre of the Dark continent, there was an eruption taking place nearby where the ground cracked because of earthquakes.
"Come out..." he whispered. There was a great sighing noise, and a dark blonde haired figure lowered down to the ground.
"My son..." said the entity. He then drew his sword, and Haraldur did likewise. Haraldur slashed towards the figure, but his blow was parried. Melkoth might take a while.
//Anyone can control Melkoth, he is just a normal NPC.//
Posted by: Trent on Friday May 13th, 2005
"The planet..." said Zion. "...It's dying..."
"Ain't there anythin' we can do?" asked Xenai.
"Is New Forever strong enough?" asked Tsu. "To stabilize the planet?"
Seijin had appeared near them. "Depends. How much energy you got? How much can you take?" He had a grim, serious look on his face.
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday May 14th, 2005
(Heh, I wanted to end this by tomorrow... Okay, but just a few more days!)
Draven struggled to look up. Another battle was ensuing far away...
"Blast it..."
He was too exhausted to even stand up, let alone fly. He could do nothing but sit there and try to recover...
----
Melkoth leapt back and extended his blade horizontally before him, holding the tip with the other hand. Black clouds engulfed the ravaged surroundings and great bolts of lightning began to strike Haraldur's vicinity like droplets of rain, tearing the ground to shreds...
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday May 14th, 2005
"Gaia..." he murmured. "Give me enough magical energy and I can summon the spirit of the planet.... she may be able to help us...." Zeros' stuggled to his feet, still feeling magical exhasution. Ryu ran quickly to his side and supported him with an arm of his shoulders. Zeros' flashed him a smile and grimced. Zeros' focused all his ki and magic outwards. Ryu helped by doing the same thing.
Soon, all around groups area, green and blue pinpricks of light that looked like fireflies started to swirl around them.
"Focus your energy outwards from your body...." Zeros' said. "I-If you can, we might be able to call the spirit of Midgard and Gaia to help stabilize the planet.... N-Normally I'd have enough eergy to do this, but the barrier...." Zeros' flattered for a moment, but Ryu quickly held him upright.
Off into the distance, more green and blue pinpricks of light started to appear, swirling and dancing in the nonexistant breeze. Both of Zeros' hands started to carve runes into the air, the runes glowing with an ethernal power.
D-Draven.... focus what's left of your magical energy outwards.... I-I'm tying to summon the spirit of the planet.... s-s-she might be the only one able to stop Haraldur and Melkoth.... he said through telepathy.
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday May 14th, 2005
//Can the others see Seijin, or is he some spirt?//
It's true, Nevina really did do it... Rink thought to himself as he stared into the flame I better wait, to tell Duilin... He grabed the flame, and smothered it. And then hopped down.
"Spirt Of The Planet eh." Duilin said "Allright..."
Focus, my energy...okay... Duilin, then focused his energy out of his body...
Rink nodded and did the same.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday May 14th, 2005
//I can do it quickly if you like, Xorlak.//
Just as the bolts of lightning were about to hit him, one of Haraldur's parts split off, becoming a long metal staff. The lightning bolts were earthed through this, then the staff reattached.
Haraldur swung his sword towards Melkoth, despite the fact he was out of reach. As it swung, the sword lengthened, and was going to slice through Melkoth's abdomen...
Posted by: Trent on Saturday May 14th, 2005
//Seijin's real, but he can't give any energy. He's just an NPC.
"Do it," said Seijin.
Zion gave a heavy breath, and looked at himself. "Are these guys staying out because this is their last stand?"
"It'd make sense," said Xenai, looking Omega Zero over. "Looks like it's time for these guys to go."
Tsu started charging up energy, preparing for New Forever.
Zion held his hands straight up, and his body glowed pure white. Eternity Weapon had withdrawn, and its entire being was compressed into a small white ball above Zion's hands.
Xenai did the same thing, except turning pure black and withdrawing a ball of black energy.
"Tsu, get ready! Hold nothing back! Zeros' needs EVERY BIT we can give!" said Zion.
"Put everything you've got into this one!" said Xenai.
Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday May 15th, 2005
(No problem. It's over when it's over.)
Draven's brow twitched as the horizon began to glow with points of blue and green.
"Spirit of the planet? Ridiculous! I refuse to waste my energy on such fairy tales!"
His teeth clenched as he struggled to stand up.
----
Melkoth swung his sword diagonally downwards and his blade lengthened as well. The two blades met at the midpoint with a ferocious clang and he pulled his back in the opposite direction, using the momentum to spin around 360 degrees. As he came around, he aimed the gigantic sword well under Haraldur's feet and it split the ground like paper.
The opposite patches of ground the father and son were standing on began to separate and, as Melkoth brought his left hand to the sky, the crack billowed with lava, forming a wall between them. He thrust his hand forward and the 100 foot tall wall of molten rock began to fall upon Haraldur...
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday May 15th, 2005
The runes began to grow larger, the points of light started to swirl faster. New colors began to appear as the clouds still left in the sky started to swirl and move wildly. All around the planet, the Earth started to shake wildly. Wind started to pick up as Zeros' moved his hands faster and faster.
The runes carved into the air started to rise and grow, glowing brighter and brighter with each movement before noone could look into the sky without being blinded.
"NOW! TRANSFER THE ENERGY INTO THE EARTH!" Zeros' shouted and slammed his hands into the Earth, his left hand glowing holy white, his right glowing midnight black with flames crackling.
Ryu unsheathed his swords, glowing ruby red and sapphire blue respectively into the Earth. The Earth started to shake more wildly as natural phenomenon started to occur randomly.
----
As the energy fluxed, the cracks formed in the Earth began to reform. Trees that were burnt or uprooted were returned to their natural glory. Young saplings became towering trees that swayed in the breeze.
Posted by: Trent on Sunday May 15th, 2005
Tsu held up the ball of neutral energy. Zion put Eternity Weapon in the ball, and Xenai put Zero Weapon in. The ball swirled wildly with the energy. Tsu took the ball in, absorbing it into his body. The amount of energy there was was inconcievable. He was forced to eject the wings he'd recieved earlier in order to handle it all, but it continued to pulse within him. It was changing him.
"KYAAAAAA!!!!!"
Tsu's hair flashed rapidly, turning white, his eyes flashing and turning gold. His wings grew enormously, turning gold, and his entire being glowed with a bright light. Arch-Angel... //A transform from a side project of mine... Heh.
Zion and Xenai stepped back, and Seijin watched with a smile on his face. Tsu pointed his hands at the ground. "New Forever!!!"
The energy erupted from his hands in a bright flash. It enriched the Earth, speeding up the process of healing it. The entire existance of the Eternity and Zero Weapons were put into this. They were sacrificed to heal the planet.
Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday May 15th, 2005
Haraldur copied Zeros' phasing technique, and ran quickly around the wall, and behind Melkoth. As he did this he swung the sword towards his father's neck...
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday May 15th, 2005
Duilin, slamed his fists down onto the ground aswell. His energy flowed into the earth, Rink's energy flowed into Duilin and down into the earth.
Life began to form. Animals, that were nearly wiped out by the destrution of the planet, began to appear.
Duilin's skin seemed to change back to normal, his wings did not dissappear yet they were rid of the crooked meancing horns, and evilish features.
"I think..." Duilin gasped "...that might have did it..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday May 15th, 2005
The ground glowed bright and th pinpricks of light fluxed even more wildly and he wind began to blow at Mach 1.... then it al suddenly stopped.
For a moment, it seemed that it didn't work. Then, a thin green, white and blue beam of energy erupted from the island the group was on. There was a defeaning explosion and a flash brighter then a thousand suns. The Earth shook wildly for a moment before any damage done to the Earth began to fix.
Cracks in the earth reformed, flowers blossomed and saplings became towerin trees. Islands that were sunkken by unnatural means began to rise from the ocean (like Retan's MDAA.
Romme rose again. The trees towered taller then ever, the grass green then before and the flowers seemd to glow.
All of his happened in a few seconds.
----
Back with Zeros' ground, the light was still bright. As the light faded, a figure could be seen.
(Gaia is an NPC. She would be rated.... VERY powerful, Melkoth and Haraldur's level.)
Standing in the middle of the island was a tall feminine figure. She had long, golden blone hair that reached to the floor, swaying in a nonexistant breeze; she wore a robe of pure white and green that seemed to flow off her perfect feminine figure. Her hands were clasped in front of her, a serene expression on her face. On her head was a circlet made of wood, vines and leafs.
The woman also had two, large pure white angel wings outlined in a white-green - they were easily three times the size of her body. She also seemed to glow with an ethernal light, telling anyone of hidden powers she held.
Slowly, she blinked and opened her eyes which were a startling emerald green with gold iris's. A smile lit up her face as she observed the group.
"Hello," she said, her voice sounding serene, as if the balad of a thousand angels, soothing and taking away any worries. She folded her wings and gazed at the group. Her smiled growed as she laid eyes on Seijin.
"Hello, Seijin," she said serenely.
Posted by: Trent on Monday May 16th, 2005
"Hey, Gaia," said Seijin. "It's been a while."
Zion, Xenai, and Tsu were taken aback by the goddess's beauty. "You... You know her?" asked Tsu.
"Yup." //Next part can be ignored if you think light-heartedness isn't needed now, or if you think Gaia's too good for Seijin. <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />// "Graduated from high school with her. Went to prom with her, actually. We pulled the most awesome prank on Hades."
Posted by: Zeros' on Monday May 16th, 2005
"Yes," she laughed heartily. "Those were the better times." Her face suddenly turned serious as she gazed at the group. "Now, what is the purpose for summoning me, other then the obviousness of my planet suffering because of the sin's of man," she frowned. Her eyes glassed over and her gaze seemed a thousand miles away before she came to attention again.
"Ma'am," Zeros' said, bowing with a flourish. He seemed to be least affect by her beauty, whilst Ryu was stunned with a glazed look; even his crimson eye stopped entirely. "We have summoned you because of the recent.... problems on Midgard and Gaia," he said heavily and started to lean on Ryu again, who quickly snapped to attention. "I'm sorry.... I could not sufficently protect the planet...." he trailed off, seemingly ashamed.
Gaia crossed the distance with her white robes flowing off her form and lifted his chin with her elegent hand, forcing his bright green eyes to focus on her equally green and warm eyes.
"It ok, child," she soothed. Zeros' seemed to relax slightly. "Much to my dismay, I have witness the events of the past eon's. How man kind destroyed the earth.... but I also had the pleasure to see how certain people tried their hardest to protect the world. That, is what gives me the greatest warmth," she said serenely. "Now please tell me why you have summoned me," she added.
Zeros' already knew she knew, but humored her anyways. "Its because of Haraldur and Melkoth. I have had the displeasure of meeting Melkoth during one of my demension travels. Normally, I would be able to match them, but because of Draven's attack and myself putting up the barrier, I have been weakened too much to even stand a chance against anyone here," he said sorrowfully.
"I understand, my child," she said pleasently. "Now we must decided what to do about them or I fear the world may be destroyed by their battle," she added and looked around the group. Her eyes fell on Ellenna's sleeping form and she frowned again and moved towards her in long strides. When she reached her, she opened her wings fully and placed a gentle hand on her forehead, her frown deeping.
"I see," she murmured quietly. Her hand glowed a gentle greena and white as she wrapped her wings around her protectively, willing her awake.
(Gaia is an NPC.... anyone can control her.)
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday May 16th, 2005
"Wha-- what in blazes...?"
Draven was stunned by the regeneration around him. Even the barren island he was on was sprouting plants. He sensed a warm inviting presence that seemed to slightly replenish his sapped strength.
"Impossible..."
No amount of chaos or destruction could impress this battle hardened man. But this regeneration, this regrowth... was completely foreign to him...
His curiosity won over his fatigue, and he took to the skies, slowly approaching the source of this strange power.
----
The rejuvenation stopped before it could near the father and son, as the battle was much too intense to allow it...
The blade clipped the tip of Melkoth's hairs as he ducked, and he began to spin rapidly with his own blade outstretched. A fearsome tornado emanated from his body, digging deeply into the earth and spewing massive boulders skyward and towards his son...
Posted by: Dude Man on Monday May 16th, 2005
"Amazeing..." Rink gasped "Gaia. Good to see you."
"Um, yes. Who are you little one?" Gaia asked
"An ex servent of the dark god Qor. I highly belive he has passed." Rink asked
"Interesting. But yes, I belive I herd of that happening." Gaia
"Yeah..." Rink said softly "I'll have to stop you right there, I know how it happened, we'll talk about later. The half demon dosen't need to hear it right now..."
"Um, miss Gaia..." Duilin said "You probably allready know this, but that women, is known as The Light, and an old Prophet told me that if she if present when Haraldur finishes his revenge, then the world, ahem, 'won't' end..." He paused for a second "Is that your plan madam?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday May 17th, 2005
Gaia shook her head.
"No, young one, it is not. I sensed her in a deep enduced sleep. For what reason she was in it, I have no clue," she sighed and shook her head. She then looked at Duilin. "Even if this is true, I am waking her because she need a chance to live again; a right everyone should have, no matter how evil or pure they are. Because life is one of the most precious things you can cherish in this realm," she said serenely.
Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday May 17th, 2005
One of the rocks hit Haraldur's hand, causing his sword to be knocked away, but it went back towards him and merged with him. Haraldur jumped towards Melkoth and grabbed his neck, and began to squeeze...
Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday May 17th, 2005
"Well, if Haraldur finishes his revenge, then if what the Prophet said was true, then the world will be destroied." Duilin replied "If we can't find Haraldur, then what will we do?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday May 17th, 2005
Gaia placed Ellenna back on the ground and straightened and looked at Duilin.
"You seem to forget that this is my Earth.... I control this Earth and Midgard.... I can banished people from the mortal plane if I wish, but I have never done it, for one i've never have a reason and another was it takes too much effort to extract the soul from the body..." she said mildly as if talking about the weather.
Posted by: Trent on Tuesday May 17th, 2005
Xenai didn't have so much trouble now. "So yer sayin'... Haraldur kills Melkoth... BOOM! World destroyed... But... This is your planet so you can cancel out this propecy...?"
"Or are you saying," said Zion, "That someone's gonna have to destroy Haraldur and Melkoth?"
"Or..." said Xenai, "Are you sayin' somethin else?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday May 17th, 2005
Gaia blinked and smiled at them.
"I can cancel out the power of those two's fight.... but in the process, I would be destroyed to save the Earth.... I cannot cancel the prophecy though.... destroying both Haraldur and Melkoth would cancel the effects though.... but right know, the people capable of it are too weak...." she sighed and shook her head. "Though I've never had to fight before, it seems I may have to use my powers now," she said, upset at the idea.
Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday May 17th, 2005
Draven landed behind some shrubbery behind the goddess, not so close as to attract much attention, but close enough to hear the conversation taking place. He rubbed his shoulder that was still sore from a while back and tried to catch his breath...
----
At first Melkoth did not flinch and reacted with the same motion, grabbing his son's neck in return. The auras of the two warriors clashed violently, mauling the surrounding landscape... But Melkoth's grip loosened slightly as Haraldur's tightened. His knees buckled as he tried to regain the upper hand...
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday May 18th, 2005
Ignoring the choking of his own neck, Haraldur turned his hands into two sharp sickles, which sliced Melkoth's head off. Melkoth's lifeless body fell to the blood soaked ground, before burning.
Haraldur telepathed to Zeros': If you wish to save the world, do it now.
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The Great Prophet, still on his ship heading to the Dark continent, had been amazed by the rising and flowering of many islands. His heart now sank when he saw them begin to wither and sink again. Zeros' and company would have to act soon...
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Ellenna started to float a few millimetres off the ground, it was almost imperceptible. The Great Prophet's face appeared above her, saying: "Do it now!"
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday May 18th, 2005
Gaia smiled sernely and place her palms out in front of her and pointed them at Zeros'. Her hands started to glow white and green as did the whole groups bodies.
As suddenly as it started, it stopped - but there was a difference. Everyone was fully recharged and not a hint of exhaustion was left. She turned on Zion and Xenai and smiled at them.
"I am sorry I could not bring back your machines....this is my last gift to you...." she whispered as her form started to fade. "I will watch from the side lines.... you must defeat Haraldur or the Earth and Midgard are doomed...." she waved her hands over the group and they started to glow white again. "Good luck....my son...." she glanced at Zeros' for a moment and with that, she faded from view and the planet flourished with energy.
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When the light faded, Zeros' found himself looked directly at Haraldur with the island he was on floating behind him. He kept his god form activated and unsheathed his Masamune, transforming it into its godform as well. Zeros' put a hand on his trenchcoat and undershirt and threw them away, landing on the island. He waved his hand and Ellenna's body floated over and stood behind him.
Stay on the island.... none of you will be able to stand up to Haraldur.... even Duilin can't because he lost most of his bloodrage.... if I die.... I'm sorry.... but do not interfear.... this fight is between me and Haraldur.... plus, you guys have to kill him if I fail.... he telepathed to everyone, including Draven and cut off the link harshly.
He pointed his transformed sword directly at Haraldur, the white fur of the sword flowing in the harsh wind.
"Hello, Haraldur," he said calmly, his face betraying no expression other then his shocking emerald green eyes that seemed to burn with power. He waved his hand and Ellenna's body floated in front of him and up to Haraldur's eye level. He lowered his sword slightly. A glow enveloped his body again, blinding the surrounding area. When it cleared, Zeros' stood again with pure white hair with ten wings that were at least five times as big as his body and they were golden.
Posted by: Trent on Wednesday May 18th, 2005
"Whoa... WOOO! Thank you so much, Gaia!" Zion gave a hearty laugh, and he was rarin' to go.
"HELL YES! You ROCK!" Xenai was obviously invigorated as well.
Tsu's regeneration was good news to him in that he was about to drop out of his transformation.
"Zeros', you idiot!" said Tsu. "Don't be so selfish! Gaia did not regenerate us all so that you can fight alone! Whatever you're fighting for can't possibly be more important than the good of the planet! Get some sense! It's not you versus Haraldur! It's US versus Haraldur and Melkoth!"
Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday May 18th, 2005
Zeros' gave him a half-lidded stare.
"I said that because Draven is hiding behind the bushes and I am not quite sure of his alliance.... and Melkoth is already dead. I felt his lifeforce fading. As for fighting alone, I only said against Haraldur.... he can also split into different forms.... so.... " he trailed off and turned his attention back towards Haraldur, his sword still half-way up and half-way down.
Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday May 18th, 2005
"Let him go."
Draven was now standing behind Tsu. He folded his arms, looking much more refreshed, and thus sporting a much more defined smirk.
"I get the winner..."
Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday May 18th, 2005
Haraldur smiled at Zeros', before lifting his arm up. He seemed pull at the air, and Ellenna floated towards him. He lay her down on a soft patch on the ground, and then stood up again.
He turned to Draven and said, quite calmly, "All the others are dead. You are the only one that lives still. I wish for vengeance on you, and to rid the world of you. Whether Zeros' helps me or not, you I will kill, or die in the attempt, in which case you will die anyway, Draven."
Haraldur spread his arms out wide, and a misty white light seemed to permeate the surroundings. //Zeros', Duilin Tsu etc. should have extra strength or whatever for a few rounds.//
"Come and get me," he said.
Posted by: Trent on Wednesday May 18th, 2005
"So what do we do?" asked Zion.
Tsu just stood there and waited, glancing quickly at Draven.
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday May 19th, 2005
"Good question..." Duilin responded "But apparently, Haraldur has to now kill Draven. I belive we might be able to trust Haraldur, he just needs to finish his vengeance and with the Light here, there is no reason to stop him."
I just hope the girl won't be killed...
Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday May 19th, 2005
Zeros' shook his head resolutely.
"Haraldur, stop trying to play god. You've probably already pissed off plenty of gods up in Asgard sporting all your 'I'm-so-good-I-can-kill-everyone' crap. And you should be lucky god's can't interfer directly with the world or you'd have plenty of them barring down on you right now.... I'm even lucky I'm allowed to, although I'm not controlled by Kami-sama or Hild-sama," said Zeros' sadly.
"Its time to die Haraldur. The fates are on my side," said Zeros' before shifting into his final form. Zeros' glowed again and flashed as the light enveloped the area and exploded outwards with unimaginable power. Trees were torn from their roots, mountain's crumbled and waves reached towering heights.
Dark clouds gathered around the area as a ethernal barrier shimmering into existance for a mile around. Any land that was their was pushed out of the way. The clouds started to pour rain as thunder crackling across the sky, the god's showing their support for the hero's.
As the light receeded, there stood Zeros'. Instead of the ten wings, he had two huge angel wings - the right one pure black outlined in crimson red and the left one pure white outlined in gold. His hair had a base of midnight black with white streaks. The scars still litered his body, but instead the formed complicated runes using the scars as connecters. His left eye was pure white and his right was midnight black.
His sword was the same, but it glowed with an almost unnoticedable ethernal glow. The fur on the sword receeded and barely brushed his hands. It was now pure white with midnight blacks streaks forming patterns.
"Come," said Zeros' with a dual voice. One pitch was soft and the other was hard. "We fight now Haraldur." Zeros' faded from view and reappeared in front of Haraldur. He swung his sword with such speed it seemed to disappeared instead of blur.
Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday May 19th, 2005
"Ha ha ha ha ha!!"
Draven threw his head back, billowing in laughter.
"Oh my, so now you actually want to fight? I'll be right here when you're done with fly-boy," he shouted back to Haraldur.
He didn't move as Zeros' began his attack. His eyes trailed off to the girl lying upon the ground. What is so important about her anyway...?
Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday May 19th, 2005
Duilin narrowed his eyes and nodded.
"I supose Zeros' has a good point to stop Haraldur. He's become to power crazy." He then shifted his eyes toward Draven.
"Um, Duilin?" Rink meeped, wile tugging on Duilin's leg
"What?" He responded
"What are we going to do? I mean, I'm not sure if it would be best to fight Haraldur, and we might need Draven if Zeros' fails."
"I hope Zeros' dosen't fail, I cannot tolorate fighting against Haraldur along side with Draven, or vice versa, I can't trust either of them, I'd fight both of them if I had the strengh, I shouldn't have given up my bloodrage, we could have summond Gaia without it!"
"No we couldn't, you almost gave as much power as Zeros' did!"
"Perhaps...but we need to be prepared. I don't like the way Draven's eyes move..."
Duilin, narrowed his eyes, they gave a slight glow. He still had greater power, but not as much as he did before. His demon side was looseing the battle, yet with Draven in his presence it was makeing his demon side want to come back and take over, it would be good thing, yet that could possibly lead to coruption, and Zeros' needs his powers to stop Haraldur not him.
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday May 20th, 2005
Haraldur rose, and lifted Ellenna up with him.
"In that case I will not weaken you before you fight Draven, especially if you think so little of me."
He moved back from Zeros' sword, and jerked. Ellenna awoke, and seemed terrified at being so high up and clung onto him. On Haraldur's surface, pictures of his parts swirled around, before getting close to eachother. Their shapes seemed to become more sylised, before they touched and it revealed they were parts of a puzzle, which was now complete. The lines between the parts began to glow with a white light, which then filled the whole area, blinding everyone near. Above a large whooshing noise, screams of pain could barely be heard. After a few seconds, the white light was gone, and there was nothing there.
Suddenly, where Haraldur had been a moment ago, the great phrophet appeared, before falling heavily on the ground. A muffled swear word escaped through his teeth before he muttered, "I hate my own prophecies..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday May 20th, 2005
"Holy crap!" Rink called as Haraldur dissappeared
"What the hell!?" Duilin yelled, he ran towards The Prophet "Were did they go!?"
Posted by: Trent on Friday May 20th, 2005
"Damn," said Tsu.
Zion looked upon Tsu, watching him clench his fists. Tsu had a new confidence about him, a new strength, that wasn't just because he was transformed.
"Where the hell did the girl go!?" asked Xenai, in surprise and rage. "Don't we need her? Where the hell's Haraldur!?"
Posted by: Zeros' on Friday May 20th, 2005
Zeros' folded his wings inward and lowered his sword. He narrowed his eyes in concentration as he held both his palms out and began to chant. His wings burst out again and began to flap wildly as his arms traced intracate patterns in the air and runes started to appear again, glowing with power. His hands started to blur and disappear as thousands of runes began to lite up the air and the area around him crackled with magical energy.
He finished with a flourish, bringing his palms into the sky as lightning crackled around him. When he was done, there was another bright flash of white light and a portal of swirling black and white energy appeared on the island. In the portal, it showed Haraldur and Ellenna through the watery surface.
"Its a locator spell. It will transport you near the target's magical aura," said Zeros' in his dual voice. "Come, if you want," he said. "Be warned, you may be seperated from the group once you step in."
Zeros' fell from the sky and stepped in. He unsheathed his sword and turned it into its god form. All around him was an endless void of black. Haraldur and Ellenna were nowhere to be seen, but he was counting on that.
"HARALDUR!" he bellowed. "COME AND FIGHT ME!"
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Back on the floating island, Ryu shook his head and entered the portal. He was in the same endless void of black with noone in clear sight. He shrugged and walked forwards.
Posted by: Haraldur on Friday May 20th, 2005
//Er... this was Haraldur's suicide, you know...//
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday May 20th, 2005
//You should have made it more clear. But I knew that. Zeros' you should edit your post//
Posted by: Xorlak on Friday May 20th, 2005
(Heh... Good place to end. Let's wrap up in two days (the 22nd).)
Draven watched with a raised eyebrow as Haraldur vanished, keeping his arms folded. He had seen many teleportation spells lately. This did not look like one...
Posted by: Trent on Friday May 20th, 2005
"I get the feeling he's not coming back," said Tsu. He turned to Draven. "Now what about you?"
Posted by: Dude Man on Friday May 20th, 2005
(No! Not Sunday! I'm busy then! I'll be at my dad's and I'm going to see Star Wars III! Can't we make it later?)
"He's gone isn't he..." Duilin groaned "So Draven, you happy now?" He turned around "I subgest you either run or fight. The world can't be safe with you in it! Yet again, now you have nothing! The weapons are gone and your army is dead. You have nothing left, Draven!"
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday May 21st, 2005
Zeros' smiled into the void and sheathed his sword and let his powers drain out of him. He did not sense Haraldur presence. His hair shifted back to its silver and his retreated into his back, his muslces relexing. He waved his hand and Ryu was called to his position. Ryu looked up at Zeros' questionabily and Zeros' only smiled. Ryu nodded his assent and disappeared with a shimmer, his two sword and the blood red eye clanking to the ground.
//Ryu was never real. Zeros' made him using his powers.\\
Zeros' then turned and held out his palm and made a slicing motion. A shimmer in the air could be seen and Zeros' stepped into it. With a shimmer of displaced air, Zeros' disappeared.
//Zeros' was actually in Limbo. He wanted to make sure Haraldur's spirit was gone forever. The spell he cast was a tracing/teleporting spell. It traced the users aura and teleported them there. Since Haraldur was dead, it sent Zeros' to Limbo.\\
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Back on the island, a small, almost unnoticable cut formed behind some trees and Zeros' stepped out of the worm hole. He leaned against a tree and sighed, rubbing his fingers to his temple.
"Don't count me out yet.... It'll take moe then a trip to Limbo to finish me off..." he said
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday May 21st, 2005
"Were did Kami-Ryu go!? Did he make it back?" Rink asked Zeros', sounding a little worried.
Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday May 21st, 2005
There was a rumbling sound, and, all around the Dark continent, new land was rising up, finally resulting in it having doubled its size.
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"So, the lands did rise up. What happens next I wonder?" said the Great Prophet.
Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday May 21st, 2005
(Okay, Monday then. And that's final!)
Draven's head tilted towards Duilin.
"My my, ungrateful aren't we?"
A flash of heated air pushed downwards from him, glowing crimson at the tips. The man began to float. He turned to Zeros'.
"The job is done. Our alliance has come to an end. The next time we meet, we shall be adversaries once more... I look forward to that day, my worthy opponent..."
Crimson flame engulfed his body and he took off, disappearing over the horizon as night began to fall.
Before he disappeared, Draven contacted Zeros' telepathically, his voice ringing in his mind...
"You are much better than these earthly fools. Don't allow them to hold you back..."
Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday May 21st, 2005
"Cowardly bastard..." Duilin muttered. "I'll be looking foward to fighting him again..."
He turns around and walks off abit... "sigh..."
Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday May 21st, 2005
Zeros' grinned in anticipation and sent a message telepathically towards Draven.
"Our next fight will be our last. I look forwards to it and noone shall interrupt. And don't worry, next time you'll finally see the full extent of my strength...
Zeros' stood from his position and turned and looked towards Duilin.
"Ryu was never real. I used my power to make a body to act like a real person," he said. He looked towards the sky and smiled. He sat down on the ground and folded his arms behind his head, leaning back.
"Now it is time for us to wait.... The final battle draw's nearer.... our next confrintation with Draven will be our last.... the battle with shatter the heavens and shake the earth to its core.... get some sleep. We will need out strength," he murmured sleepily. He closed his eyes and let the wind waft over him and feel asleep in seconds.
Posted by: Trent on Sunday May 22nd, 2005
"What do you mean 'our'?" said Tsu. He crossed his arms, letting his transformation fade out. "It's obvious that you want to do everything yourself." He laid down and let sleep come.
Zion noticed it too, but decided not to say anything. He laid down and fell asleep. Xenai was already out.
Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday May 22nd, 2005
"Well, I'm going to help Zeros' fight Draven. He enslaved me for a large fraction of my life, with the Dark Empire. I to, have a vengance..."
He crosses his arms, and folds his wings. A vision of his smashing Darion's face comes back to his memory and he flinches as he remembers Pophin's spear nearly impale him.
"Duilin," Rink said "I think you're getting alittle to angry with him, I thin-"
"Shut it Rink..." Duilin interupted. "And I don't see why we don't fight Draven now, Haraldur gave us enough strength to fight a nest of Red Dragon's before he killed himself."
He picked up a stone, and threw it in a near by pond, it skipped across it.
Posted by: Xorlak on Monday May 23rd, 2005
As the last rays of the sun fell behind the horizon, chaos seemed to give way to peace... another cycle completed...
To be continued...